Insomniac's Lounge

So, CapMetro released their schedule for the MetroRail this week.

As Mike suspected, it's gonna suck. Let's see. Lets' only run the train during rush hour, vaguely defined as the ass-crack of dawn (5am ish) and stop sometime after 6. Because don't go out after dark kiddies. All the bad people come out at that time.

Anyone wanna make a bet that they end up with double their estimate of riders? Of course, watch me be wrong because there are so many people out of work they might otherwise be riding the train.

I'm not cynical tonight, only bitchy. Use my tax dollars wisely bitches.

OK. An update. There is a blog. Make your opinion known here. I think many othes already have.

CapMetro Blog: Capital MetroRail Schedule--First Pass

Woohoo. The 171 (aka the Oak Hill Flyer) is being changed. The Oak Hill Park and Ride is being moved next to William Cannon. For me, that's great. I just moved to our headquarters office near that. I'm walking distance from that bus. There's another bus (970 Lantana) that goes straight to our campus but it sucks, only running twice a day. Yeah. Twice. The nice thing about the 171 too is that it lets off closer to Lamar and that will make it easy for me to get home, on my bicycle. I can't wait.

Info on the route change for 171

Only 3 months til Austin's MetroRail will be ready. I won't be using it for work, but I'll probably use it to get to Aztex games since there's a station at Highland Mall and a bus going to Reagan High. We'll see.