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

[John Swindler]

It's a six zone trip in Philly.  The soaking of the airline passengers is 
even more blatent at Newark.  Some have suggested it is to keep the cab 
drivers happy.  I suspect it is a management decision not to let transit 
interfere with the parking garage cash flow.

And then there is Washington National and the metro station location 
decisions.

The 28X comments are interesting.  Busways may be ok, but the buses still 
get stuck in rush hour traffic.  Looked at experience with Overbrook LRT vs 
South busway schedules at city end, then wondered whose decision it was to 
go with an Airport busway (to use original selling point) rather then light 
rail.

John




>From: Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07 Date: 
>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:43:51 -0500
>
>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.)
>
>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.
>
>-j.
>

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