Comments on: Day 4: Get on that bus without whining http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/2006/12/15/day-4-get-on-that-bus-without-whining/ Fri, 24 May 2013 21:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: anon, Walnut Creek http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/2006/12/15/day-4-get-on-that-bus-without-whining/comment-page-1/#comment-6 anon, Walnut Creek Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:28:42 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/onassignment/2006/12/15/day-4-get-on-that-bus-without-whining/#comment-6 You have discovered the mind-numbing routing system of the County Connection. For a small system it does a great job with bus to BART connections and is somewhat useful for travel within one community, but it falls down on Concord to Walnut Creek or other city to city routing. It’s a three hour, two transfer ride to get from most Concord points to Kaiser WC for example. Too often the only routing between communities involves a side trip to BART (try starting in Pleasant Hill and heading for Lafayette or Tice Valley.)

I live in WC and could use it for most trips to downtown if the service included evenings and weekends. It seems to me that subsidizing the bus routes to central shopping and commercial zones is probably more cost effective than trying to shoehorn in more parking.

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