The new Corona Transit Center will be the site of a formal ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 7th at 10:00. It's going to be exciting to see a project that was nought but dirt earlier this year come to fruition, and this project has been a long time coming. Our local Congress-critter is scheduled to speak, as is Corona Mayor Karen Spiegel and RTA Chair Jeff Comerchero.
RSVPs to the event are requested, and can be sent to Mari Hernandez via e-mail, or at (951) 565-5044.
Also, I note that RTA has provided public transport directions to the site this time, a significant improvement over their last invitation. Could my gentle chiding be getting to them?
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Saturday, August 14, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Corona Cruiser and Pass Transit on Google Transit
I'm not quite sure when it happened, exactly, but both Corona Cruiser and Pass Transit are now available in Google Transit. The Cruiser is available just like any other transit agency, with bus stop icons on the map with detailed information. The functionality in Banning and Beaumont is in that strange limbo where RTA used to be, with only trip planning functionality but no bus stop icons.
UPDATE: Further complicating matters, it appears that only the Pass Transit routes operated by the City of Banning- routes 1, 5, and 6- are available in Google Transit. Pass Transit 2, 3, 4 and the Cabazon Express are operated by the city of Beaumont, and are not apparently available.
This leaves only two agencies in Riverside County without Google Transit trip planning- Sunline (who says that it's "coming soon") and PVVTA in Blythe.
UPDATE: Further complicating matters, it appears that only the Pass Transit routes operated by the City of Banning- routes 1, 5, and 6- are available in Google Transit. Pass Transit 2, 3, 4 and the Cabazon Express are operated by the city of Beaumont, and are not apparently available.
This leaves only two agencies in Riverside County without Google Transit trip planning- Sunline (who says that it's "coming soon") and PVVTA in Blythe.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Service Cuts- Corona Edition
I noticed in the Press-Enterprise (twice) that the Corona Cruiser was looking to raise fares and cut services, but I never saw in the paper just when public hearings on the changes would be held. (Both articles mentioned hearings, but not times and dates.) Nor were any explicit proposals discussed, so I e-mailed Corona's transportation department about the cuts, and I got a response back yesterday.
For fare hikes, there's nothing terribly unreasonable. They generally bring their fares (currently $1.25 for general cash) in line with RTA's, which is probably only a sensible response to inflation. However, the service cuts are something else entirely. On weekdays, the Cruiser currently runs from 5am to 8pm. The current proposal slashes three hours a day of service on the system, on both the Red and Blue lines- buses would run from 6am to 6pm, a total loss of 7 Red line and 6 Blue line trips on weekdays. On Saturdays (the Cruiser doesn't provide Sunday service) it gets even worse- the bus currently runs from 8am to 6pm, and it would be pared back to run from 9am to 3:30 in the afternoon. This would make it the only transit system I know that would be incapable of handling a 9-to-5 job, on any day of the week. The Red line would lose 8 trips, and the Blue line 7 on Saturdays. Now, RTA provides service along 6th Street in Corona, on the workhorse Route 1 seven days a week, but the southern portions of Corona are 5 miles or more away from 6th Street. Route 3 also serves Corona, but once again, only the northern portion- it turns around just south of Corona Regional Medical Centre at 10th Street, still inside the circle of Grand Blvd. This move would leave substantial swaths of the city of Corona without access to public transportation past 3 in the afternoon on Saturday.
The public hearings on this issue will be held on May 13th at the Corona City Library, once at 10am and again at 6:30pm. I'll post the official details of the service cuts as soon as I find some file space to host them- they're large PDF files.
For fare hikes, there's nothing terribly unreasonable. They generally bring their fares (currently $1.25 for general cash) in line with RTA's, which is probably only a sensible response to inflation. However, the service cuts are something else entirely. On weekdays, the Cruiser currently runs from 5am to 8pm. The current proposal slashes three hours a day of service on the system, on both the Red and Blue lines- buses would run from 6am to 6pm, a total loss of 7 Red line and 6 Blue line trips on weekdays. On Saturdays (the Cruiser doesn't provide Sunday service) it gets even worse- the bus currently runs from 8am to 6pm, and it would be pared back to run from 9am to 3:30 in the afternoon. This would make it the only transit system I know that would be incapable of handling a 9-to-5 job, on any day of the week. The Red line would lose 8 trips, and the Blue line 7 on Saturdays. Now, RTA provides service along 6th Street in Corona, on the workhorse Route 1 seven days a week, but the southern portions of Corona are 5 miles or more away from 6th Street. Route 3 also serves Corona, but once again, only the northern portion- it turns around just south of Corona Regional Medical Centre at 10th Street, still inside the circle of Grand Blvd. This move would leave substantial swaths of the city of Corona without access to public transportation past 3 in the afternoon on Saturday.
The public hearings on this issue will be held on May 13th at the Corona City Library, once at 10am and again at 6:30pm. I'll post the official details of the service cuts as soon as I find some file space to host them- they're large PDF files.
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