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There are 4 Responses to “Gold Line emulator can’t cut it, so Metro will”:

1. I never understood the “Gold Line emulator” idea. People are waiting for a train route to be completed, not a bus route.

   Comment by Spokker on July 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm »Reply«
   
   

2. I rode it today. The heavy pickup is at Little Tokyo, where folks who take the short line 30/31 trips are left waiting to continue going east. They of course board the 632 expecting it serves the same stops as the 30/31. That it only serves stops adjacent to the future Gold Line stations cause headaches for the operators.

   Obviously they didn’t vet this w/Montebello. I’ll be curious whether Aurora Jackson, Director of Transportation for the City of Montebello, says anything about the situation when she speaks at the SO.CA.TA meeting next Saturday.

   This is a far from optimal situation. Stop locations are often out of the way and not easy to find. Passenger confusion and operator frustration seems to be caused by having a limited stop bus with nearly zero advance notice running along the route of a long established local. Metro should have gone with its original plan to keep running the 30/31 via change letters at the historic level of service until the Gold Line extension opens in a few months. Despite the best of intentions this isn’t working.

   Comment by Dana Gabbard on July 3rd, 2009 at 8:48 pm »Reply«
   
   

3. BTW, the page on the Metro website about the 632 has been updated to reflect the changes that start Monday. But the link to it on the website has been pulled, maybe because the map has yet to be adjusted…

   http://www.metro.net/riding_metro/bus_overview/line_632.htm

   Comment by Dana Gabbard on July 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 pm »Reply«
   
   

4. [...] That Was Fast, "Gold Line Bus" Already on Chopping Block (Metro Rider) [...]

   Comment by Streetsblog Los Angeles » Today’s Headlines on July 6th, 2009 at 7:52 am »Reply«
   
   

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