They are available at the Union Station transit station, at the ATA, are posted at many of the stops and can be found on the bus. Some businesses and information kiosks have info as well. For instance, d'Bronx has a good collection of bus schedules.Critical_Mass wrote:and a trip planner is only useful for those who have internet connections...
and to obtain a physical map (route map, not system), you have to get on a bus...(correct me if I'm wrong).
As far as the MSP map, I find it harder to find out which routes are on which streets. There is no easy way to portray such a dense amount of downtown routes. MSP's map has its flaws and so does ours. The Chicago map shows which routes on which streets, but it is hard to tell where it is going because you can't follow the specific route. It depends on what you are trying to accomplish. It isn't hard to figure out what street to pick up the bus on. Yeah, you might have a problem if you're trying to go 3 blocks in one of these zoomed in areas.
I didn't mean to come out in such harsh disagreement, but this just seems silly to me. TRY using the bus off the map. It isn't that hard. You are zooming in on a few block area and blaming ATA's problems on that. If you are in that area, you are a block or two from all of those routes. On the greater map, it is easy to figure out where you need to go. You then simply find the bus stop for that route. Take a look at the WHOLE map sometime. You want to go the Plaza? Easy to see the 56 route. Trace that up. Oh, look, orange line. Look, a number 56 going down main. Look, a legend that says "10th and Main Transit Plaza." Hmm, darn map is too hard.
