tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38420906.post4190220314083096451..comments2023-06-29T04:07:06.738-06:00Comments on The Boise Bus Blog: Valley hails start of fixed-stop eraJulie Fanselowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09914548762794031621noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38420906.post-13703949957231616062008-10-01T06:56:00.000-06:002008-10-01T06:56:00.000-06:00To be quite honest, I think moving to a fixed stop...To be quite honest, I think moving to a fixed stop system at this point is probably the worst thing Valleyride could have done. A fixed stop system will do very little to keep routes on time, since much of the delays are caused by traffic congestion and we have no control over that.<BR/><BR/>Instead valleyride should have focused on revamping their current bus system, currently most (nearly all) of the Boise busses pool downtown, and many of them only run once an hour. This makes it hard for many people to take the bus to work because if they happen to miss a bus downtown they'll never make it to work on time, and forcing commuters to leave an extra hour early is completely unfair.<BR/><BR/>We already have a few busses hub at the town square, why not add a few more and cover that area more efficiently? Also, why not add another hub at say the fair grounds? It would be much more efficient to have smaller routes leave from the fairgrounds, downtown, and the town square and have routes that go between them.<BR/><BR/>For example, I could catch a bus from near my house and it could take me maybe 15 minutes to get downtow, from there if I want to go out to the mall I could just catch *the* route oute there, and that would be another 15 minutes. If I missed the bus to the mall it would only be at most another 15 minutes before I could catch the next one.<BR/><BR/>It feels to me as if valleyride is trying to minimize operating costs to maximize thier profits, where they should be increasing the efficency of the bus system and reach the same effect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com