<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4946%2C477206" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6kwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4946%2C477206</a><br>
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Then go down a few inches and you will find the letter to the editor in question. Of course the chap is insulted that routes that have greater patronage have closer headways than the line on which he lives. You know the mentality … because 22 Crosstown has a car every five minutes, my line should too. And because the company allows standees in the rush hour and that is when I ride, that is grossly unfair. Of course they have to have extra cars that are only used a few hours a day to haul rush hour crowds but that doesn't matter … I'm important. :<)<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>At 11:00pm on a random weeknight with no sporting event, the 51 Carrick runs half-hourly and was surprisingly crowded. I'd had a friend's first beer from his new job as a head brewer on the North Shore earlier, then walked downtown with 2 friends for a late dinner in the Cultural District. No bike, alas, as it had rained earlier.<br>
<br></div><div>Does the route need more buses? Probably not. It helps (for me) that I can use it and walk 10 blocks or use a 48 and walk only 3 and they're spaced so one or the other comes every 15 minutes at that hour.<br>
<br></div><div>My friend who lives along the Arlington trolley line is quite sad it runs never. Patrons of the 43 Bailey (which serves New Arlington, then goes over to Mt Washington) would probably be similarly sad today as your writer, while they waited on Smithfield and watched things pass.<br>
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