On Monday, February 3, 2014 11:54:26 AM UTC-8, MelissaP wrote: > > But it’s good to read that – finally -- LA is making progress toward using > the Universal City station (which has plenty of room) as transit a hub. I > know when I was there the last time, I wondered why more buses weren’t > routed there. The buses in DC have always been used well to transport > riders to subway stations. From what you say, it seems that LA has finally > caught on to the way it’s done. > North Hollywood Station is the major hub, since it is the terminus of the Red Line and is closer to the center of the Valley measured north-south. Universal City can never be more than a minor hub because it is literally in the southeastern corner, with fewer options for lines to be routed in/out or terminating there.
> I’ve used the 222 many times after shows at Warner Brothers, since I > usually stay in Hollywood. However, when it’s going to arrive is always a > crapshoot. It stuck to the schedule better when it was routed between > Burbank Airport and Inglewood. > You're going to feel really old when I tell you that it hasn't been routed that way since 1995, when that segment was broken away from Line 212 (it was done to make a way-too-long line more manageable). The night schedule is subject to a couple of factors that can affect its on-time performance. During Hollywood Bowl season, it frequently gets hung upon the south end in the traffic when a performance lets out (but then, so did Line 212 pre-1995) and on the north end the late night service also operates the Sherman Way Line 163 service all the way west across the Valley. These days, Metro has a real-time bus arrival tracking system that can be accessed by text from any cell phone. It uses GPS to see where the bus actually is then calculates the time it should take for it to get from there to whatever stop you're at. I've used it and it's about 98-99% accurate. There’s also service at least ‘til midnight on Ventura, which takes care of > the CBS Studio. It’s only Disney that’s a problem. > Line 150 runs once an hour on Ventura all-night between Warner Center and Universal City Station. There is a timed connection on the east end to a special Line 656 shuttle that goes through the Cahuenga Pass to Hollywood, and it connects to both of the all-night lines in Hollywood (217 on Hollywood Blvd. and 4 on Santa Monica Blvd.). So during the few hours overnight that the subway doesn't run there is still connectivity between the two sides of "the hill". I'm less nervous about walking late at night in the Burbank Media District than I am on either Ventura Blvd. or in Hollywood, actually. But your point is well taken, Melissa, in that it's still more apprehension-causing than doing it in broad daylight. Sadly, there isn't enough day-in, day-out ridership demand to run Line 155 later. That was tried five or six years ago and it ended up being three or four passengers on a bus that seats 45. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
