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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Fareset 4: Lack of Service

As pointed out by Avenging Archangel, yes, I do live in a section of Virginia Beach where, as I write, it's impossible for me to get around. Some pointers:
  • $750,000 out of a $1.8 BILLION budget is all that's needed to get around evenings and Sundays
  • As it stands now, service is roughly 6:45 AM to 5:45 PM (or 6:45 PM, depending on the route) over here by TCC
  • TCC Night Students have no way home
  • TCC, for the longest time, has requested evening bus service. I assume it falls on deaf ears
  • 10:45 PM is a reasonable last trip for all routes out of TCC 7 nights a week
  • Yes Chesapeake, this includes the 12 heading to 20th & Seaboard
  • Reid: as you can see, it does NOT cost Billions to fund. HRT's entire yearly budget for the whole region is just under $50 million per year.
Improvements to Beach routes that should help:
  • Relative to Cedar Grove, Route 20 should be every 15 minutes all day weekdays 4:45 AM to 7:45 PM, every 30 minutes 7:45 PM to 9:15 PM, and every hour until 12:15 AM (yes, one more trip at night). Weekends, service should be every 30 minutes 4:45 AM to 8:15 PM then every hour until 12:15 AM. HRT has a plan for 15 minute service under the 2030 plan.
  • Route 12 should get its old 2001 schedule back, but + Sundays. It used to be the last one left 20th & Seaboard at 9:45 PM, got to TCC at 10:45 PM, and finished at 20th & Seaboard at 11:45 PM. Yes Chesapeake, you need to start caring.
  • Route 36 should run from Pleasure House to TCC every 30 minutes 5:45 AM to 7:45 PM, then every hour with the last trip on either end at 10:45 PM. Sundays same timeframe, but every hour (seen in the 2030 plan)
  • Route 29: similar schedule to Route 36
  • Route 33: Run until 12:45 AM (last trip either end 11:45 PM)
  • Route 26: Today, all this route does is put the 29 back on schedule
  • Route 32: ACCEPT OUR 30-DAY PASSES, and run every 30 minutes in the afternoon

2 comments:

Avenging Archangel said...

As for your Route 20 proposal:

1. You seem to forget that the 2030Plan splits the 20 at the Military Highway LRT Station.

2. Why in the heck would Norfolk expand service on the 20 when it would cannibalize light rail?

In Virginia Beach, we need a 20% boost to get in the queue for LRT, but you'd probably need about 45% to pay for this wish list.

The bottom line: cute wish list, but it would get about 10 seconds consideration as a submitted proposal.

Michael Ragsdale said...

Forgot about the 20 Split.

Time to trim the fat