About the 1/4 mile distance

If this is still helpful, it doesn't sound like you'd be able to achieve exemplary performance with the second stop 1/2 mile away. It's hard to say for sure whether the reviewers would agree that your situation would meet the credit requirements. We've seen some cases where a project had the second bus stop just outside the 1/4 mile boundary, but they showed an very high level of service with multiple bus lines and more than 200 trips per day and earned the credit. We've also heard of projects that tried to make a similar case but were denied. The only way to know for sure would be to submit a CIR with as much data as possible about the number and distance of bus lines and stops, and the frequency or how many trips are possible per day, and any relevant information about how many people use the bus already, or what's a typical distance to a bus stop.