Post by calwatch on May 9, 2012 0:47:11 GMT -8
Very quietly but it is there.
www.metro.net/about_us/finance/images/Proposed_Fiscal_Year_2013_Budget.pdf
Highlights:
- Day Pass returns to $6 after the one year demonstration period is over, although it would require a Title VI hoop jump.
- "Improved services include extended night service for Metro Rail, increasing the frequency of services on
all rail lines and providing additional trips on high capacity bus lines to reduce overcrowding and enhance
service reliability."
- Specifically, about 13% increase in service hours for Metro Blue Line from FY 2012 and 30% on Gold Line. Green Line and Red/Purple Line is staying flat. Note that some of those service increases may have been included in the 10 minute service pilot. Expo Line is assuming a full year as the FY 2012 budget assumed service started November 15, 2011.
- Bus service hours increase by 0.3%, most of which goes to the Orange Line extension. Service hours for contract service actually drop. Local bus service is essentially flat.
If they extend the 10 minute night service pilot to the Gold Line, that would address a lot of complaints from the Pasadena and Eastside crowd of poor service to those areas. Peak service on the Gold Line is already at 6 minutes and middays is at 12 to sync with the Red/Purple Lines, although I could possibly see them going to 10 on the midday as well and 5 in the peak. Blue Line hours are probably an amortization of increased service for the full year, while the Red Line stays flat since the FY 2012 budget proposed upping service to 5 minutes in the core all days, which has not happened on middays and weekends (presumably that was used to fund the late night service increase).
The issue with the 10 minute headways is that much of the time they actually don't exist in reality because of the maintenance work required. Increasing them to 15 and running them on all colored lines, including Silver, Green, and Orange, is a better idea.
www.metro.net/about_us/finance/images/Proposed_Fiscal_Year_2013_Budget.pdf
Highlights:
- Day Pass returns to $6 after the one year demonstration period is over, although it would require a Title VI hoop jump.
- "Improved services include extended night service for Metro Rail, increasing the frequency of services on
all rail lines and providing additional trips on high capacity bus lines to reduce overcrowding and enhance
service reliability."
- Specifically, about 13% increase in service hours for Metro Blue Line from FY 2012 and 30% on Gold Line. Green Line and Red/Purple Line is staying flat. Note that some of those service increases may have been included in the 10 minute service pilot. Expo Line is assuming a full year as the FY 2012 budget assumed service started November 15, 2011.
- Bus service hours increase by 0.3%, most of which goes to the Orange Line extension. Service hours for contract service actually drop. Local bus service is essentially flat.
If they extend the 10 minute night service pilot to the Gold Line, that would address a lot of complaints from the Pasadena and Eastside crowd of poor service to those areas. Peak service on the Gold Line is already at 6 minutes and middays is at 12 to sync with the Red/Purple Lines, although I could possibly see them going to 10 on the midday as well and 5 in the peak. Blue Line hours are probably an amortization of increased service for the full year, while the Red Line stays flat since the FY 2012 budget proposed upping service to 5 minutes in the core all days, which has not happened on middays and weekends (presumably that was used to fund the late night service increase).
The issue with the 10 minute headways is that much of the time they actually don't exist in reality because of the maintenance work required. Increasing them to 15 and running them on all colored lines, including Silver, Green, and Orange, is a better idea.