[PRCo] Re: Boarding buses and trains

[John Swindler]

I like the PAT Sunday schedule for Library.  30 min. headway with 28-32 min. 
layover at Simmons Loop.  How fortunate that public transit in Pittsburgh 
has unlimited funding.

John


>From: ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net (ROGER Jenkins)
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Boarding buses and trains
>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:14:36 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>Having driven public transit buses in San Diego and Brockton Mass. , its
>the schedule makers that write up an unrealistic schedule for a
>particular route that will make or break being on time or late. One
>particular route 15 schedule I drove on a Sunday PM , from downtown to
>El Cajon , a distance of 15 miles , cut the running time between time
>points so much [because they thought the riding was less on Sunday ]
>that by the time you made a round trip you were 15 min late leaving the
>downtown terminal . And on each succesive trip you got later and later
>.!!  You had to go to the restroom at the end of each trip and they gave
>you a 15 min , supper break ,which I took ! [otherwise you went hungry
>.]
>
>    At the end of the night I was over 1hour and 20 min. late !
>Everybody else was as late as I was . I wrote out what they called a
>Micelaneous [SIC] Report to the schedule dept. explaining the situation
>and it took them until the next schedule change two months later to
>improve the running times !  In the meantime we all heard it from the
>riders about the inconsistant schedule !!
>
>    As an example of the poor time element , from Hillcrest at 5th and
>University to Park Blvd and University the weekday running time was 12
>min. Sunday it was 7 min. [a distance of  9 blocks and six
>unco-ordinated traffic lites ]  Impossible to make in a bus . The
>running joke among the drivers was that the schedule makers ran the time
>points in an Mazda RX7 SPORTS CAR to figure the running times.
>
>


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