08-11-2015, 10:03 AM
(08-11-2015, 09:42 AM)BuildingScout Wrote:(08-11-2015, 09:03 AM)goggolor Wrote: I don't get why GRT doesn't run iXpress on the same detour route as the #7 - if losing the iXpress is inconvenient for me, I can't imagine what it's like for less able-bodied people who need to get to the hospital frequently.
I think the idea is to have two different alternatives for people who used to travel on the main King route. Depending on where you live one of the two detours shouldn't be much worse than what you used to take.
That explanation might make sense if the 200 iXpress stopped anywhere between Charles St Terminal and Bridgeport (like stops at Weber & Victoria, Weber & Union, etc). But it doesn't, so the only benefit of running the 200 down Weber and skipping intermediate stops is speed. Saving a few minutes on the route doesn't seem worth skipping both the GRH and Uptown stops, which are highly used especially in the fall semester.
The Union-Allen closure was communicated as an 8-week outage, not as an indefinite outage that was taking service away for the rest of the year. Although given how work on Caroline has progressed, we have to take the road outage schedules with a heaping tablespoon of salt (the RideION site says that King will be temporarily paved if work is still ongoing by the winter... but they said the same thing about Caroline *last* winter, and that never happened).