shuttle bus

Last week's ridership reports are in, and they already fall within the range I predicted - even before the "settling down" period has really been reached.

Today, thanks to skepticism from those who think my position solidified over six years on this subject is because of predetermined bias rather than actual study, I'll switch from my original plan of doing use cases by "estimated level of commute interest" and instead hit what I would guess are the two best possible cases for the Red Line.

Today's entry: Somebody who fell for the "TOD" hype and moved into Crestview Station so they could walk to the Red Line and take it to work at UT.

Morning commute this time around; assume they want to get in comfortably before 9:00AM. Note that the Red Line shuttle drops off on San Jacinto; the two bus options here drop off on Guadalupe; the typical UT office is, if anything, closer to Guadalupe than San Jacinto.

Spoiler: Even the local bus beats the Red Line, because of the shuttle-bus trip.

Yes, even though that local bus travels through half of the congestion on the Drag.

A lot of people wonder why I keep talking about the Red Line, seeing as how any month now it'll finally open - it can't actually be stopped at this point.

The dead horse analogy is repeatedly invoked, sometimes by people on 'my' side; often by gladhanders like JMVC on the other side.

Check out this post on Capital Metro's blog, especially this comment:

The University of Texas at Austin today (Jan. 5) introduced its free iPhone application featuring news, sports, events, campus maps and shuttle bus information, a campus directory, videos and more.

The application is part of a wider, ongoing communications effort to provide alumni, faculty, staff, students and others with the latest information from all of the [...]

1. Fare Enough, local blog by Larry Schooler, covering some Austin transit and has some experience with Tri-Rail.

Welcome.

In 1998, Cedar Park voted to secede from Capital Metro's service area.  Despite having shucked their contributions to Cap Metro, many Cedar Park residents exploit Cap Metro by driving up to Leander to catch Cap Metro's express buses.

Cedar Park is now trying to devise a system to help its residents freeride:

In 1998, Cedar Park voted to secede from Capital Metro's service area.  Despite having shucked their contributions to Cap Metro, many Cedar Park residents exploit Cap Metro by driving up to Leander to catch Cap Metro's express buses.

Cedar Park is now trying to devise a system to help its residents freeride:

I'm probably much more amused by myself than warranted. Judge for yourself:

Continuing yesterday's post, here are a couple of use-cases from Leander; the endpoint of the line.

Since the train trip would be the longest here, one might expect the train to do well - let's see.