Current mood:

sleepy

Well, I just got home a little while ago...

Anyone else notice that it seems a great effort is being made to ensure that nobody can get anywhere throughout southeast Florida lately?

Up in Broward tonight, all the traffic lights were out of sync. I mean... maliciously out of sync. They would be green for maybe 3 seconds, and stop the flow of traffic at every light. Down here in Miami-Dade, the same is true, AND we're losing a pretty huge chunk of our public transit.

Cut from SouthFloridaTransit... and yes, I got this a bit late!

There is a public meeting schedule tommarrow (8/12/2008) at 6:30p at
the W. Dade Regional Library located at Coral Way (SW 24 St) and SW 94
Ave on the SERVICE CANCELLATIONS, effective: Sunday, Novemember 16,
2008, of routes:
1
52
56
57
73
136
224
240
287
344

- Joseph Esquilin

Here's the worst case scenario for November. It is not etched in stone. The county commission will vote on Sept. 2nd. Contact your local commissioner and tell them to adequately fund transit.

Routes to be eliminated: 1, 28, 42, 48, 56, 57, 75, R, 238, 240, 243, 246, 267, 287.
Weekend service: 32, 73, 75,
Headway reduction: 2, 24, 33, 37, 40, 51, 54, 62, 71, 93, B, H, K, M, 248.
Re-alignments:
2 discontinue north of 84th street.
3 discontinue south of Omni.
8 discontinue east of Brickell
9 discontinue south of Omni.
12 remove Civic Center loop
16 discontinue south of Omni.
21 discontinue north of 79th street.
22 discontinue south of Flagler.
24 discontinue east of Brickell
40 discontinue west of 117th av.
51 discontinue Omni leg
54 short turn every other trip at Okeechobee
93 discontinue south of Omni
95 eliminate trips from Miami Av
97 minor re-alignment
B discontinue CBD trips
C discontinue south of Omni
E discontinue west of Golden Glades
H discontinue Skylake section
K discontinue north of 193rd street
M discontinue South Pointe loop
S discontinue south of Omni
120 discontinue south of Omni
249 minor re-alignment.

- BusProwler.


Any bets on how long it'll be before it becomes necessary to just friggin' dike out trustworthy, wonderful old mdta.html?* I'm guessing another year of such mismanagement and our public transit will be gone for good.

* mdta.html is a hack used to quickly access schedule info, as a workaround for broken html and forms on the MDTA website.