Bob,
I am not trying to discriminate against the North or South side; I
use to live on the South side for 7 years. The reason I mentioned the East
& West transfer points is that those were the two areas from which I know
the UW runs shuttles for football games. I wasn't sure of the details so I
stated only what I knew for sure as examples of what could be done. The
main point was and is to use the example of what is done for the UW home
football games as a way to mitigate congestion downtown during Halloween.
At 6:05 PM -0600 11/13/03, Bob Paolino wrote:
>2. Mark also makes a good suggestion about making more active use of
>MadMetro to manage traffic congestion, but perhaps reveals his own
>residential bias in suggesting that those buses run from only the west
>and east transfer points.
>
>As a Northsider, I'm already distressed by the limited service for the
>North Transfer Point and the Northside generally (and I'm sure
>Southsiders have similar concerns), which makes using the bus on days I
>don't bicycle a very iffy proposition (let's just say that if I take the
>bus from home to downtown, the trip takes about as long as it does for
>one of my colleagues to commute from Watertown). [For commuting
>purposes on non-bike days, I sometimes get around the poor Northsidde
>service by driving the car someplace beyond the transfer point timed
>such that I can park away from downtown and get a bus after it has come
>out of the transfer point. Basically, it's a self-styled "park and
>ride." Yes, it still means firing up the car and burning many pounds of
>fermented dead plants--to borrow from a recent thread ;-) -- but at
>least I'm not adding to downtown congestion and am driving a little
>less, even though I know that the first miles are worse than the last
>ones in other ways, but I do what I can with the severe limitations of
>our bus service.]
>
>Mark's suggestion, as presented, wouldn't work very well for
>Northsiders, considering that for all practical purposes, there is no
>service between the East and North Transfer Bottlenecks. (All that is
>there is the extremely limited--only hourly, early shutdown, and no
>weekend--Route 16. I know that Metro is considering some marginal
>improvements to airport service and creating a new route for N<-->E
>service to replace Route 16 (this came up in the context of the grocery
>store nightmare in which Copps/Roundy's is sitting on the remaining 17
>years of the lease on the Sherman Plaza Kohl's store they deliberately
>bought and closed, and the new service will make it a little easier for
>Northside bus riders to get to Woodman's...but still not on weekends)
>
>If you're going to do this sort of thing, don't discriminate against the
>north and south by making it available only from east and west.
Mark N. Shahan ------ __o
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