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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Mon Jul 5 09:31:54 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Sun Jul 4 23:38:36 2010. I don't use the 3x buses often but when I have they suffer from the same problems as what I experience with the D6. From what I have seen in practice, the D6 short turns have not brought much improvement because they frequently go through anyway due to abandons. The supplemental D1 and D3 are too few. In the evening (westbound) direction, the buses are quite full (often crush) from downtown past where I alight in Dupont. (Some turnover at Dupont-20th but mainly transfers from the subway.)As for people who ride full routes, a census of them needs to be taken. I would be surprised if there were that many to justify full time end-to-end service. Likely, the bulk would be traveling at about the same time, so schedule runs that go all the way at times when there is, say, a dozen or more going at the same time (such as shift changes at the hospitals). This is mass transit and as such it has to be configured to what the majority requires, not someone's entitlement to personalized service (which is what a lot of the folks on the east side of town seem to think it is). One of the DDOT folks told me a while back that is Metro's biggest problem...they won't put their foot down and abolish inefficient or wasteful practices "because the managers and decision makers have to face a lot of those who would be affected at church on Sunday." All of DC gov suffers from the same thing so it's a pot-kettle thing, but it would be interesting to see if the changing demographics in town will eventually force transit to come into the present. |
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