How bout that Oil Spill

[IndigoLight]

Originally Posted by Robyn55

How would you arrange a public transportation grid in the Metro area? Just give me a rough outline - from the Beaches to OP and Ortega and Riverside/Avondale - to downtown and Southside - do the Northside as well. You can do it by bus and jitney - that way you won't be looking at billions of dollars to acquire ROWs and install light rail lines. Robyn

For starters, I would switch from full size city busses to smaller ones. Have you ever seen a full city bus? Me neither. But I often see busses with only 2-3 people inside. I would start with switching to small busses (maybe even vans) and more diverse routes. It's ridiculous when one has to take bus # 1 to downtown, change to bus # 2, and then travel back to the same side of town, only to arrive 2 miles away from their home (because the bus # 1 just doesn't go that way). No wonder people don't use public transportation. It's poorly thought out and is extremely inconvenient.
It always puzzles me when I think about why wouldn't city "leaders" visit places where things are done/run better and more efficiently (be that a public transportation, water preservation, etc.) and LEARN.

Lack of flexibility, tunnel vision, good ol' boy mentality, inflated egos? What is it?
All of the above perhaps.

[fsquid]

It's ridiculous when one has to take bus # 1 to downtown, change to bus # 2, and then travel back to the same side of town, only to arrive 2 miles away from their home (because the bus # 1 just doesn't go that way). No wonder people don't use public transportation. It's poorly thought out and is extremely inconvenient.

why wouldn't someone just walk the two miles?

[Robyn55]

Originally Posted by IndigoLight

For starters, I would switch from full size city busses to smaller ones. Have you ever seen a full city bus? Me neither. But I often see busses with only 2-3 people inside. I would start with switching to small busses (maybe even vans) and more diverse routes. It's ridiculous when one has to take bus # 1 to downtown, change to bus # 2, and then travel back to the same side of town, only to arrive 2 miles away from their home (because the bus # 1 just doesn't go that way). No wonder people don't use public transportation. It's poorly thought out and is extremely inconvenient.
It always puzzles me when I think about why wouldn't city "leaders" visit places where things are done/run better and more efficiently (be that a public transportation, water preservation, etc.) and LEARN.

Lack of flexibility, tunnel vision, good ol' boy mentality, inflated egos? What is it?
All of the above perhaps.

I very much agree with the small bus/jitney idea. Robyn

[FlyiMetro]

Here is a video of The Great Oil Spill

Hope you all enjoy it.


YouTube - The 2010 Oil Spill - A Pictorial of Disaster (in HD)

[IndigoLight]

Originally Posted by fsquid

why wouldn't someone just walk the two miles?

No sidewalks.
(Not to mention elderly, disabled, young children, and a possibility of a heat stroke).