- No free warnings for Far West Side camera
- Weekend detours on tap [for I-71/670 work]
- Don't let the potholes win!
- Statehouse promises easier parking routine
- Red-light camera on at Sawmill
- Warning period over for new red-light cam [at 5th Avenue and Northwest]
- For bus-riding OSU grads, the jig is up
- New Franklin County maps available
- Winter lets government pass the salt
- Obama: Drill, baby, drill and...
- Weekend work will close additional I-670 ramp
- Won't it be easy to steal rental bikes?
- North, East sides high on street-repair list
- April hearing on highway-work delays
- 4th Street closed for rush hour [because of Gay Street stabbings]
I've highlighted the three relating to the split fix in pink. The two highlighted in yellow are things I was somewhat interested in. I think when 80% of your recent articles have nothing to do with the name of your feature, you may want to rebrand to "Trafficking Columbus: About Traffic, Not Drugs" or "Transport Blog: We'll complain about traffic or your money back" or something about generic transportation.
But really, it makes sense that you can't fill a blog with a road as small as the Innerbelt. Plus, there's only so much viewership you can get with "Ramp X is closed" or "Traffic was backed up again." Diversification is good but I don't look at everything filed under "Crawlumbus" because the idea behind it doesn't interest me. However, transportation does interest me.
For example, take what has happened since January 1, 2012, when BuckIDs were required to be swiped on COTA:
That's interesting. The following is also interesting for the author's disdain of how the bikes look:"The transit authority reports that OSU ridership -- 'free' for students with valid BuckID cards -- is down 7.3 percent so far this year. And paid ridership on campus-area routes is up ... [where] routes along High Street, Kenny Road and the Lennox Town Center have a combined 30,000 additional paid riders."
"They're also not the most glamorous looking bikes. Bikes used for Minneapolis' program are lime green. Chicago's are gun-metal gray."I think they're kind of cute:
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A scene from Newsies:
The student ridership issue is interesting. I think everyone could have guessed that there were some former students still using BuckIDs for free rides. The 7.8% sounds about right. It's interesting too that it has translated to more paid ridership. Maybe they should have done this years ago?
ReplyDeleteAssuming that there's 30,000 riders per 3 months results in 120,000 higher ridership per year. The annual ridership total is 18.7 million. It's difficult to say how much of the increase can be attributed to general increase in ridership.
DeleteIt'd be nice to see how large of an increase 30,000 riders are for those routes.
I agree though, they should have gotten rid of free riders a long time ago.