Solving JTA's BRT North Corridor Funding Dilemma

[urbaknight]

This is retarded. How are these drivers communicating to the base? Old school walkie-talkies from the 70s?? Almost every major wireless carrier has push-to-talk smartphones for businesses. Why not get each driver a PTT Blackberry (that are basically free) that also have GPS in them, run location tracking software on the phones in the background that gets uploaded in real time on Google Maps & embed the god damn map on JTA's website???

This is ridiculously easy, dirt cheap & would help out SO MUCH. Its almost like they're TRYING to suck.

We can give each driver a blackberry. (to be used responsibly during work hours) After hours, who cares what they're doing with them. This small perk can slightly offset the raise they're asking for.

[CS Foltz]

I did not see anything regarding cost per units (Bus's themselves!) Lake's figures make sense to me but question the validity of the project! From my viewpoint, just as screwy as the proposed BRT for Philips!

[thelakelander]

Depends on the type of bus and number desired to be purchased.  A single typical 40' bus could cost you as $600,000.  A 60' articulated bus could be well over $1 million.

[BrSpiritus]

I don't think JTA wants real time info systemwide because then it would become glaringly obvious how bad the whole service sucks.  I ride the CT4 downtown which is normally a 30 min headway but on sundays it's an hour?  You'd think that sunday would be a prime day for people to ride the bus to the beaches since the CT4 is a major route from Rosa Parks to Atlantic Village and a connection with the Beaches PCT but the damn fools at JTA run it every hour.  I've had the displeasure of being a slave to JTA since I moved here in August.  Don't have a car, don't want a car, can't afford a car but don't you dare mention that you ride the bus in a job interview because if you do that job just went "bye, bye".

[stjr]

As I posted elsewhere, here is what BRT is really all about:

"BRT" = "Bypassing Rail Transit" !