r/MetroTransit

So I have a trip I need to take on the bus using a less frequent route and so I checked the canceled trips schedule since I’ve been burned before.

What I found led me to believe Met Council needs to clean up its contracts like MVTA is apparently working to do. According to the Rider Alerts ( https://www.metrotransit.org/rider-alerts )
as of 12:30pm today, it looks like there are 33 canceled trips, 30 of which are operated by Transdev and the other two by Metro Transit.

Route- number of trips canceled
A Line - 1 trip
30 - 8 trips, what appears to be an entire driver shift
72- 8 trips, what appears to be a whole driver shift
721 - 2 trips, sequential
802 - 7 trips, appears to be entire driver shift
805 - 7 trips, appears to be entire driver shift

Obviously there are good people who work everywhere but this is crazy. Metro, who is responsible for many more trips, has just three canceled, apparently due to mechanical problems and traffic but following trips will be done, and then you have what looks like four full-time work shifts uncovered on a Tuesday. How does this happen? Or, is part of the “contract-out” strategy to limit how many standby drivers they pay for so if a few drivers get sick, by design, trips are missed? Do they still get paid for these missed trips? Should we really be contracting out some of this stuff?

I guess I’m lucky because the route I need to ride has not been canceled (yet) but clearly many people across the 30’ routes aren’t as lucky.

This section of my commute is pretty much interchangeable, so I’m curious: which would you choose and why?

Hey there.

Given the prevalence of AI in our modern world I'd like to clarify where the mod team stands on AI.

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And to preemptively clarify, posts about our regional transit agencies using AI are allowed. It's the content you create, dear reader, that we ask to be made with your own hands.

Thank you for your time. Rules will be updated shortly to reflect this.

I'm a bit late to the game, but I was looking at the Network Now framework trying to see where I can more reasonably incorporate transit into my life. Even though I have a car, I think the Green Line is going to be a game changer for me.

But one issue (at least to me) in looking at the framework is that there's still not a great link between the eastern half of Minnetonka Boulevard and Excelsior Boulevard that doesn't send you all the way into Minneapolis for a transfer. I wasn't even seeing a great connector between the new Beltline Station and Minnetonka Boulevard, which surprised me. It looks like they considered a connector in the new route 36 planning (previously Route 6), but then decided to send that route through Uptown and between Bde Maka Ska/Lake Harriet. The new 617 sort of connects Excelsior to the general area across Highway 7, but if you live on Minnetonka Boulevard west of Highway 100, it's still a hike to get to the intersection of Lake and Wooddale-reasonable by bike but potentially a 15-20 minute walk.

If I'm missing something, I'd love to be corrected! I would love to see a route that runs up Minnetonka, crosses at Ottawa and over Highway 7, and loops around Excelsior, maybe circling back at Louisiana rather than continuing on into Hopkins. I know that duplicates parts of the 17 and 38, but a spur line that runs regularly would be nice :-)

Recently switched my commute timing and haven't been able to hit a transfer(4 to 804 northbound) where I used to have a great success rate. Recent quarterly changes tightened the timing to 6 minutes, which seems ambitious, but was successful more often than not when I was taking an earlier trip.

Besides Transit app "on-time percentage", which seems like it's a poll of the userbase of the line overall, is there some odd data source I could use to see(objectively) if I've just been unlucky?

Hi! I’m a student at the U doing research on campus safety and public transportation. I’m interested in learning what makes students choose not to take public transportation before or after a sporting event, especially when buses or trains are crowded. I’d also love to hear your thoughts on: What problems have you experienced with public transportation during/after games? What would make you more likely to use public transportation? What could be improved to make transportation more efficient and help save time?