http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service ColumbusUnderground.com Messageboard en-US Thu, 23 May 2013 22:08:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/search.php http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110508 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:30:39 +0000 Cyclist 110508@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p><blockquote><cite>JohnWirtz wrote </cite><blockquote><cite>Cyclist wrote </cite>This is good news, but I have trouble with the infrequency of it. </p><p>Why can't they run several smaller busses? I have wondered why they rely on just one standard bus for all routes. </p><p>Use mini-buses on late night and unpopular routes, use the regular ones on most routes and double/articulated on the most popular routes.</blockquote></p><p>That would save some money on gas, but you still have to pay the driver. If you want smaller vehicles, maybe you could start operating a Pedicab service :D </p><p><img src="http://www.pedicab.com/images/boardwalk_pedicabpage02.jpg"></blockquote></p><p>I do. Call 327-0074 for service. Capitol City Pedicabs</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110507 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:45:30 +0000 Walker 110507@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>I just got off the phone with Marty Stutz, VP of Marketing, Communications and Public Relations at COTA, who requested that I make sure peoople are aware that this information is <b>speculation/rumor only</b> and is not an official announcement from COTA. They've gotten quite a few phone calls about these announcements on ColumbusUnderground, and were surprised to see them here themselves, as they watch the site to keep up with public opinion about the bus system.</p><p>FYI, I moved this topic out of "transportation news" to hopefully settle some of the confusion and keep people from mistaking this information as official or confirmed.</p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Walker</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110506 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:21:13 +0000 Brewmaster 110506@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>Do you have a link?</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110505 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:08:23 +0000 josephp 110505@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>Kindly if the mods can stop editing my threads, it is not nessecary. It is not rumor. I will appericate if you respect and leave my threads alone.</p><p>Thank you.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110504 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:08:03 +0000 johnwirtz 110504@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p><blockquote><cite>Cyclist wrote </cite>This is good news, but I have trouble with the infrequency of it. </p><p>Why can't they run several smaller busses? I have wondered why they rely on just one standard bus for all routes. </p><p>Use mini-buses on late night and unpopular routes, use the regular ones on most routes and double/articulated on the most popular routes.</blockquote></p><p>That would save some money on gas, but you still have to pay the driver. If you want smaller vehicles, maybe you could start operating a Pedicab service :D </p><p><img src="http://www.pedicab.com/images/boardwalk_pedicabpage02.jpg"></p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110503 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:58:11 +0000 Cyclist 110503@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>This is good news, but I have trouble with the infrequency of it. </p><p>Why can't they run several smaller busses? I have wondered why they rely on just one standard bus for all routes. </p><p>Use mini-buses on late night and unpopular routes, use the regular ones on most routes and double/articulated on the most popular routes.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110502 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:47:39 +0000 scottlitch 110502@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>I'm all for it. There are many nights I'd rather ride a bus than drive.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110501 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:31:48 +0000 Brewmaster 110501@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>Yep...it's a Catch 22. </p><p>3x the busses doesn't necessarily mean 3x the riders, but it does mean <u>more</u> riders.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110500 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:26:05 +0000 josephp 110500@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p><blockquote><cite>Brewmaster wrote </cite>30 minute service is pretty inconvenient. If that could be knocked down to 10 minutes, drunk riders wouldn't have to mess with timetables, and ridership would be much higher. It would also cost 3x as much, but that's been COTA's achilles heel for years.</p><p>Frequent straightforward routes will get new riders. Snakey, less frequent routes will only draw riders who have no other choice but to ride.</blockquote></p><p>If you ride #84 on Saturdays which they run every 15 minutes from 6pm to 2a from OSU to Lennox and the most average they have 5-8 passengers every bus I see coming by so offering so much frequently at late night would be a waste of gas and money so they need to start somewhere first.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110499 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:21:46 +0000 Brewmaster 110499@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>30 minute service is pretty inconvenient. If that could be knocked down to 10 minutes, drunk riders wouldn't have to mess with timetables, and ridership would be much higher. It would also cost 3x as much, but that's been COTA's achilles heel for years.</p><p>Frequent straightforward routes will get new riders. Snakey, less frequent routes will only draw riders who have no other choice but to ride.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110498 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:19:32 +0000 johnwirtz 110498@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p><blockquote><cite>libratazjoe77 wrote </cite>1) South High St to North High St to OSU </p><p> - Service running every 30 minutes from 12a till 3a (From downtown to</blockquote></p><p>There used to be a route called the #20 for that, but it was severely underutilized, so it got cut during the budget problems.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110497 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:11:47 +0000 katieb 110497@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>I think it's a good idea. sometimes I want a bus at night, and it's too late and they've already stopped running. it's annoying.</p><p>having them go later would be great in my opinion.</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110496 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:09:01 +0000 urbandenim 110496@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p>good idea. let the damn busses run for the love of god PLEASE!</p> http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/topic/rumor-mill-cota-considering-night-owl-service#post-110495 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:03:20 +0000 josephp 110495@http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/ <p><i>Editor's Note: Marty Stutz, VP of Marketing, Communications and Public Relations at COTA, confirmed that this information is <b>speculation/rumor only</b> and is not an official announcement from COTA.</i></p><p>I just had a lunch with some folks from COTA and they were telling me that COTA is looking into offering Night Owl services in 2 years from now unless they get more federal funding so they can start offering it eariler than that. <img src="http://www.transitchicago.com/images/welcome/brochures/brochures/nightowl.jpg"class="newsimages"></p><p>What are the routes that COTA wants to run:</p><p>1) South High St to North High St to OSU </p><p> - Service running every 30 minutes from 12a till 3a (From downtown to OSU will get the 30 minute service, others are hourly)</p><p>2) East to West Broad Street</p><p> - Service running every hour from 12a to 3a</p><p>3) Cleveland Ave to Livingston Rd to Reynoldsburg</p><p> - Service running every hour from 12a to 3a</p><p>What do you think about that?</p>