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

[Joshua Dunfield]

Derrick Brashear wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Joshua Dunfield wrote:
> > 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.

It might have cut more than 2 mins off the schedule on peak runs.  But it
can't have been much more, because there wasn't a huge difference between
peak and off-peak run times.  Even with the busway, rush hour 28Xs can
still get caught in Downtown traffic, and you can't write a schedule around
the worst case.

OK, now you've made me dig out the box of PAT schedules that I haven't
opened since I moved...

Inbound from airport, weekday:
3/12/2000 schedule:
  lv Airport    arr CMU     time
  5:37a         6:34         :57
  7:07a         8:09         :62
  3:07p         4:10p        :63
   (Also :63 until 5pm, then less)
  12:08a        1:00a        :52

9/10/2000 schedule ("West Busway Open"):
  lv Airport    arr CMU     time
  5:39a         6:34         :55
  7:11a         8:09         :58
  3:11p         4:10         :59
   (Also :59 until 4:40p, then less)
  12:08a        1:00         :52

4 minutes less at peak.  But maybe they tightened the schedule after
experience with the route?

9/4/2005 schedule:
  lv Airport    arr CMU     time
  5:43a         6:38         :55
  7:27a         8:25         :58
  3:06p         4:08        1:02
  12:08a        1:00         :52

Doesn't look like it.

-j.