[Durham INC] Bull City Connector

[Tom Clark]

And how is it that ridership is down--i.e.the bus doesn't stop much--but the
problem is too many stops?

Is this the Laffer curve of transportation?   ; )

TC

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Ken Gasch <Ken at kengasch.com> wrote:

> Is the solution to simply reduce the number of stops from 4 and hour down
> to 3 an hour? If buses would then be on time, I would be happy.
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> The stop closest to our home is Dillard. Now, when going west to places as
> far away as 9th Street, we simply have to take a car. My wife and kids love
> riding the bus. However, I insist on the car as I can't take waiting for the
> bus, late in the evening, when young kids are tired and cranky.
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> Ken Gasch
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Ed Harrison <ed.harrison at mindspring.com>wrote:
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>> I conveyed the comments from Ken G. and Kevin D. directly to TTA this
>> morning at the monthly
>> meeting on Operations.  We were discussing an item that showed TTA has a
>> remarkably high on-time rate for its own buses, as Kevin
>> appears to imply.
>>
>> The short answer from TTA Exec. Director David King is that the Bull City
>> Connector "has too many stops."
>> Also, that the 15-minute headways are ambitious. He also noted that the
>> City Manager intends for
>> the BCC to be "a premier service," and that Duke has the same interest, as
>> a major funder.
>>
>> Ed
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>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Mike Woodard wrote:
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>>  I've forwarded all these comments to DATA and TTA management.
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>>> Mike Woodard
>>> City Council
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