12-08-2020, 08:26 AM
(12-08-2020, 08:17 AM)neonjoe Wrote: The above ramp idea would have made sense, my guess the reason that it was not implemted would have been due to the railroad.
There is already a level crossing there. The bus ramp wouldn’t have to involve any changes to the crossing itself, although the way it’s drawn on that map shows it curving across the tracks.
I had the same annoyance when I used to take the bus to campus. My thought was to re-instate the little tail of the original route of University (Dearborn) Ave. as a bus-only connection.
I noticed that often the bus would have to wait at the light at Seagram; due to a busload of pedestrians crossing, it would be unable to make the right turn on red. Then it would turn on the green and wait for the same busload of pedestrians at Ring Road to make its right at that point. And of course this is after sometimes taking some time to even get to the traffic light in the first place.
Cutting a full minute off a bus route is nothing to sneeze at.