KCRag Forum

All of the issues on the ballot will drag out the voting time.

new RideKC bus stop markers and survey:



https://t.co/Q89FrwiLJe

new printed schedule design:

MAX survey: http://www.max.digicate.com/

changing over to vinyl seats! first vehicles already in service.

https://twitter.com/RideKCTransit/statu ... 3393869824

^Nice, cloth can get disgusting over time.

earthling wrote:^Nice, cloth can get disgusting over time.

this should also make the bus appear brighter. have you ridden the hope bus with the pink vinyl seats? makes a big difference.

earthling wrote:^Nice, cloth can get disgusting over time.

And by "time' I assume you mean "almost immediately".

free rides after 4pm on new years eve: http://ridekc.org/news/christmas-and-new-years-day-2017

Has anyone created a map overlaying bus service with school zones showing amount of free/reduced lunches metro-wide?

Could give an interesting view of where the gaps in coverage age.

The 595 route is being extended to the Gardner/Edgerton Intermodal

http://ridekc.org/bulletins/595-adds-se ... stics-park
http://ridekc.org/assets/uploads/route-maps/595mwk.png

brewcrew1000 wrote:The 595 route is being extended to the Gardner/Edgerton Intermodal

http://ridekc.org/bulletins/595-adds-se ... stics-park
http://ridekc.org/assets/uploads/route-maps/595mwk.png

this is great but it shows one problem with the bus system

why couldn't this line go further east? seems like a lost opportunity to require everyone who doesn't live west of US 71 to make a transfer

can't have every route go everywhere but why not one of them?

have this terminate at 27th and Indiana and you're created demand for east side housing that has a way to get to work via the bus

Thought I noticed a bus stop outside of the Amazon warehouse... this would explain it.

1.5 hours on a bus each way! Holy shnikies!

shinatoo wrote:1.5 hours on a bus each way! Holy shnikies!

Think longer.

How long does it take to get to downtown from Independence Ave around Lykins Sq and what's the average wait for a transfer downtown?

I bet the actual trip for their target worker is more like 2-2.25 hours.

This is why this bus route is for people who haven't yet bought a car.

flyingember wrote:

shinatoo wrote:1.5 hours on a bus each way! Holy shnikies!

Think longer.

How long does it take to get to downtown from Independence Ave around Lykins Sq and what's the average wait for a transfer downtown?

I bet the actual trip for their target worker is more like 2-2.25 hours.

This is why this bus route is for people who haven't yet bought a car.

I got that number from looking at the schedule, not from "thinking".

shinatoo wrote: I got that number from looking at the schedule, not from "thinking".

You can find plenty of examples of longer times.

If you need to get there by 8am you have to hop on the bus at 6:43am downtown for the 7:42 dropoff.

Transferring from bus 24 there's a ~6:39 at 13th and Holmes, but that's risking missing your bus and you need time to walk between stops.
So you take the bus before that gets there at 6:23. That bus arrives near your home around Benton at about 6:07am.

That's two hours getting to work.

if you don't want a 2 hour bus commute to downtown, don't live in a sparsely populated suburb 30 miles away.

KCPowercat wrote:if you don't want a 2 hour bus commute to downtown, don't live in a sparsely populated suburb 30 miles away.

it's a combination that amazon located too far out and the bus is too slow to use it to get here

HOV lanes could help dramatically in these kinds of cases

Pretty sure there is bus on shoulder all the way out there fwiw.