Come On and Take an MRide
We’d just like to take a break from the negativity and give it up for the number 3 bus, which gets us to North Campus without making 30 lurching stops on the medical campus and actually stops somewhere west of C.C. Little. Our carless commute has been cut from 45 minutes to about a half hour, and best of all, it’s free under the MRide program. If only we’d known about this earlier.
Back to your regularly scheduled negativity tomorrow.
I’d like to give a shout-out to the number 1, which, while taking forever and a day, picks me up and drops me off a block from my apartment. It also picks me up and drops me off directly in front of my obscure major’s building on the NC.
However, neither the 1 or the 3 run on weekends. I learned this, very belatedly, yesterday. Other than that, go MRide go!
posted by Jen on January 16th, 2006 at 1:06 pm…rather, the 1 runs for some time on Saturday, but not on Sunday. Course, I wouldn’t expect the AATA to expect riders wanting to go to North Campus on a Sunday. I was personally against it myself.
posted by Jen on January 16th, 2006 at 1:08 pmI was on the 3’s route for many years as a teenager, and I swear the worst thing about my parents’ divorce was moving off the fast and magnificent 3’s line. Thanks for recognizing my all-time favorite bus route.
posted by andrea on January 16th, 2006 at 1:14 pm“If only we’d known about this earlier.” Dude, I’ve been promotin’ this gig since September to you.
posted by Brandon on January 16th, 2006 at 9:00 pmposted by Sketchy on January 16th, 2006 at 9:43 pm
..darn! It was supposed to be this.
posted by Sketchy on January 16th, 2006 at 9:46 pmMy shout-out goes to the #5, which goes every 15 minutes during the day during the week.
posted by Edward Vielmetti on January 17th, 2006 at 2:11 amJen,
The #1 does run on Sundays, but, unfortunately for your purposes, it is a curtailed route. It only goes from Food Gatherers on Dhu Varren in to downtown, and doesn’t include any N Campus.
I’m happy to be a #1 route commuter (and lucky enough to live close enough in that I can ride it on Sunday, as well).
posted by archipunk on January 17th, 2006 at 12:47 pmI’d bet the #1 would get riders to N Campus if they ran it weekends, don’t you know - they could curtail it there.
This town needs a transit rider’s union…
posted by Edward Vielmetti on January 18th, 2006 at 2:16 ambig ups to the deuce deuce, rolls to my office door like clockwork
posted by bennyprofane on January 18th, 2006 at 11:09 amAh, the old bus dilemma. I live in Kerrytown and all of my classes are on the NC. I either have to walk 1 mile to the Medicial Campus and take the MRide. (30 minutes) Or I get on the ATAA bus around the corner and get dropped off basically in front of my building. (30 minutes) At least when it is nice out, I can get some excersice!
posted by Urbanchords on January 19th, 2006 at 2:16 pmBenny Profane you’re such a schlemihl.
posted by Spirit of 711 on January 19th, 2006 at 2:34 pmUrbanchords - Hi neighbor. I think my best bet from Kerrytown to NC so far has been taking the Link to CC Little, then catching the Commuter. But then again, the Link has ran 15 and 10 minutes late for me the past week… and one time for at least 20 minutes, then we gave up and started walking… so the AATA probably is the best, I suppose. At least you get good reading done on the half-hour trip.
Out of curiosity, which NC building are you in that the 1 drops you off in front of? I’d be damned surprised if it was the same as mine, although that’d be kind of neat.
posted by Jen on January 19th, 2006 at 8:58 pm