I have often seen the 5 bus without a rack on it! I know, because my mother
lives on that route on East Johnson, and I have biked there with the
specific intent of visiting her, then putting my bike on the bus out to the
transfer point. Imagine my joy when I tried this twice and both times met
up with buses without racks. Oooooooooooooooooo--wise guy! My mother got a
good laugh out of it.
I don't have a street map handy (sister took it), but you can exit the bike
path, I think, at Walter Street, and take that towards Milwaukee Street.
Once you hit Milwaukee, there is a bike lane, and the exciting challenge of
turning at the corner where the East Side Transfer Point is. You'll peddle
past the post office (to your right) and then it hits Corporate Drive. Take
this to your right, as if you are heading to Hwy 51. You'll see the
Corporate Drive development to your left.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
>Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:31 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: re: Marsh View Hearing
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>>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:09:36 -0500
>>From: "Arthur Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: Marsh View Hearing
>
>>This is the development directly behind the Post Office on Milwaukee
>>Street, across from Woodman's. Take any bus that goes to the East
>>Transfer Point and you can walk from there. Put your bike on the bus
>>rack, and you can ride to 2 - 3 blocks from the Transfer Point to the
>>meeting. Bring your lights and you can ride home.
>
>>Arthur Ross
>
>Only if those buses don't happen to be 700-series buses. It's
>going to be the
>anniversary of Bikes on Buses in one month or so, and yet Metro
>still has an
>entire series of buses that don't have bike racks, and that they have no
>intention of putting bike racks on. The reason given was that
>Metro was going
>to get a bunch of new buses last year, and retire the 700-series,
>which were too
>small to put racks on. The deal on the new buses fell through because they
>didn't meet ADA requirements, so one would think that Metro might
>put the racks
>earmarked for those buses on the ones without. They haven't and
>won't, because
>they say the racks don't fit properly. Given that a machinist can
>make just
>about any kind of mounting jig fairly easily, and buses have loads of sheet
>metal up front, I don't understand why they can't just hook them
>on. It's not
>as if a 2-bike rack takes a lot of load.
>
>Metro says they assign buses to routes on a daily, random basis,
>but routes such
>as the 56, 57, and 58 appear to get the 700 buses a much higher
>percentage of
>the time than randomness would indicate, which makes it very hard
>for users of
>those routes to have the flexibility.
>
>thus ends my current Metro rant.
>
>Rich
>
>
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