10.28.07

Schedules

Posted in Learn at 10:22 pm by utarant

Looking at the schedule, paper or online, if one knows the stops along a certain route, one will notice that not all the stops are listed. While this may be a space limitation issue on the paper schedules, I don’t see why the UTA can’t list ALL available stops on the web version. For regular riders on a particular route, the ambiguity can be handled, but first-time riders trying to determine which bus to take and how close they can get to a particular spot will likely be unable to make the “right” decision because of omitted information. Trying to read into the schedule using the map doesn’t work because only the ROUTE can be seen and not the stops along it, at least for my fast-bus route. There are only two options of know of to find out the real stops for fast and express buses: Call the UTA operators, drive the mapped route from the schedule and look at each busstop signpost to see if the bus number you seek is listed (because the fast bus doesn’t stop at EVERY busstop along the way)
I believe the UTA would benefit by increased ridership if they would make the *real* schedule available to the public.

Leave a Comment