Re: (ot) Route Numbering Rationalization

IS Edit
Thursday, April 11, 2002 1:36 AM

And so the lesson to be learned is...

Do you think the changes were worth it or is the overview all too complex for the average schmuck who just wants to schlep from A to B or get on down to the local shopping mall?

BTW, how are you, Joe? I haven't been to Melbourne in daylight in months. Pics of the old cable system buildings are still on my agenda. Any of you other guys, Joe's a cable car gunzel and has a good cable car site. He would appreciate any pics you guys have of any of the old Melbourne cable winding houses or depots that are still standing. I've sent him the North Melbourne Winding house and the depot in High Street, Northcote.

RT Murphy

----- Original Message -----

From: cable_car_guy

To: [email protected]

Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:25 AM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] (ot) Route Numbering Rationalization

There have been recent posts about rationalizing route numbers. I can describe the scheme that some highly paid consultants came up with for SamTrans (San Mateo County Transit), a transit agency that operates south of San Francisco. On 15-Aug-1999 SamTrans changed the designation for every single route on the system, and most of the schedules at the same time. It was a mess. SamTrans route number designations: xX "Green" Express route 1- 99 "Orange" Community route 100-199 "Blue" BART connection 200-299 "Red" Caltrain connection 300-399 "Red and Blue" BART and Caltrain connection All schedules and signs at bus stops use the colors listed above. The schedules on their website do not. The community route numbers are further broken down into ranges of tens by the cities they serve. For instance, routes 14-17 serve the Coastside area, where I live. Routes 34-36 serve Brisbane and South San Francisco. Numbers in the 190s, 290s, and 390s designate intercity routes. Most run significant miles on El Camino Real, the primary non-freeway north-south road on the San Francisco Peninsula. After a month or two of anarchy, things settled down and the system seems to work pretty well, although I'll bet most of the riders aren't aware of it. The consultants made a nice dollar out of it. SamTrans website: http://www.samtrans.org/ Regards, Joe Thompson ;0) The Cable Car Home Page http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/cablecar.html San Francisco Bay Ferryboats http://home.mindspring.com/~joethompson1/ferry.html Park Trains http://www.geocities.com/cable_car_guy/html/ptrain.html

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