On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:28 AM, timwong wrote:
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Perhaps both oversights by Metro were just that, but because both of these
routes being eliminated were heavily used circulator-type routes that get
people on the near-east side (some of the heaviest users of transit in
Madison) to the university area in favor of something designed to increase
ridership by people on the far east side (something that we may all wish
for, but do not currently experience--count the number of passengers on the
#3, for instance, at Atwood & Fair Oaks vs. Jenifer & Paterson if you're in
doubt), I would hope Metro would do more to notify and warn people in the
near-east side neighborhoods that changes are planned for their popular bus
routes before panic sets in, and to reassure these riders that they will not
be negatively affected. Put another way, I think Metro should worry more
about keeping people along the Jenifer and Gorham St. corridors happy than
those people who choose to live in the mostly car-dependent Richmond Hills,
if it needs to come down to a choice between one of the two, which it should
not.
Using low ridership on #3 as justification for not trying to increase far-east ridership isn't fair. Ridership on the far-east side decreased after the restructuring because they cut out most of the daytime service on the #38 route. It's just not worth it to ride to the transfer point and add 25 minutes to my trip downtown. I'd rather ride my bike, hitchhike, swim/walk across the lake, or worst of all, drive my car. Expanding the 38 service is of great benefit to us far east siders.
-barb
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