Downtown Circulator Update

Before this bus was introduced I thought the scheduling was ambitious. On the East-West run I frequently see 2-3 buses bunched up, and my visual observation has never detected more than 10 riders per bus mid-day. I haven't observed the North-South run though. Maybe six buses/hour-- one every ten minutes--is a reasonable way to start out.

A colleague has ridden the Circulator a few times and each time around 7th Street NW, he asks the rider about the buses going in the other direction and how can he transfer. He claims that each time he gets a response something to the nature of "I have no idea what you're talking about." Granted I haven't tried this myself.

Last night after the Comprehensive Plan Task Force Meeting, I walked along homeward with some other people and we saw that Union Station has become a Downtown Circulator bus yard. This was just before 9 pm, and there were about 7 buses there. One of the people commented that the buses are so big and maybe they should have started with something smaller.

Things to think about.