[PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

>
> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>> 28x will at least still take me to Pittsburgh from PIT; To get to Oakland,
>> about 45 minutes. To be fair, the West Busway works ok so to downtown it's
>> probably about the same. Compared to Arlanda Express the 28x is a bargain,
>> too. It's probably underpriced.
>
> IIRC, the West Busway reroute cut all of 2 minutes off the scheduled time.
> But maybe the Parkway West already worked okay?  (OK, the West Busway almost
> certainly increased schedule reliability, which is good.)

There's no way it's only 2 minutes faster to go in the rush hour direction 
on the West Busway. I have crawled down Greentree Hill during morning rish 
hour because I had a redeye back from SF. It took more than an hour to get 
from Robinson to the Ft Pitt Tunnel.

Nice try.

> Soaking airline passengers is a great tradition that PAT needs to be part
> of.  It works pretty well in Philly -- $5.50 one-way, free if you have a
> pass, *any* pass, including the relatively cheap city transit pass that
> you wouldn't normally have a prayer of using on a Zone 5 Regional Rail trip.
> The airport workers can get to their jobs without blowing half their
> paycheck, and the passengers can get to their flight without blowing $25
> on a cab.

Yes, actually, that would be smart. Seriously. $2.25 to get to Oakland 
from PIT is a bargain.