Says Kamp: "If I miss a bus at a transfer point, I'm going to have a half-hour wait, maybe an hour on weekends." Kamp says that these routes routinely arrive late at transfer points, meaning passengers are regularly missing connections.
Buses on these routes don't have to stop at every intersection, only if they see someone standing at a stop or if someone signals they want to get off.īut this system, Metro officials say, makes it extremely difficult to run buses on time. Right now, there are stops at all seven intersections on Jenifer between Williamson and Baldwin Street. Madison Metro will move the routes back to Jenifer when the street reopens in the fall, but plans to have fewer stops. During the reconstruction, Metro will most likely reroute buses that run on Jenifer Street one block over to Spaight Street (the detour routes are not yet final). This year, the city is going to rebuild Jenifer Street from Spaight Street to Few Street, along with portions of some cross streets. "That often happens when you're making changes with a transit system." "I think it benefits the whole, even if there is a smaller group negatively impacted," Kamp says. But he insists the changes will improve the overall system, which hit 15 million riders for the first time last year. It is planning to cut stops along a few routes, including Jenifer Street, a neighborhood where many people ride the bus and have grown accustomed to their stops.Ĭhuck Kamp, Madison Metro's general manager, recognizes that some people won't like the changes.
"It gets harder and harder for her to compete against the car system."īut Madison Metro says the elimination of some bus stops along heavily used bus routes is a necessary evil, to help make the buses run faster and more efficiently. "Just watching my mom and her aging, I see it's a struggle to stay engaged in the community as more and more barriers keep being put in front of her," Barrett says. And so Barrett, who is a member of Madison Area Bus Advocates, fears how changes proposed by Madison Metro - to thin out bus stops along routes through the isthmus - might limit some people's independence. The Metro Transit and City of Madison Transportation Commission will be holding a public hearing March 11 to discuss the potential changes in August.Michael Barrett doesn't ride the bus all that much, as he mostly gets around by bicycle.īut his mom and an elderly neighbor both depend on Madison Metro to get out.
The proposed Route 82 makes up for what the 81 will lose, as it travels around the southern and western ends of the capitol building. While the existing Route 81 takes a narrow path down Johnson to Ingersoll before turning back on Gorham and all the way down Observatory and to Elm, the new route will cover more ground in the campus south of the capital and down to Regent.īus Rapid Transit to be implemented by 2024 In response to criticism from Madison’s Metro Transit users, the City of Madison began a proposal last year to implement Read… On the other hand, Routes 81 and 82 are proposed to be completely rerouted from their existing course to better serve the UW campus population. “Route 80 to serve UW Hospital to Lake St., while Route 84 serves Eagle Heights to Charter St.” “Reroute Route 84 to serve the UW Hospital, and serve both westbound and eastbound stops,” the City of Madison Metro said on its website detailing the proposed changes. Though these are the main changes for Routes 80 and 84, there will be slight differences in their routes as well. Student Transportation Board to hold forum on proposed 80 changes The Student Transportation Board and the University of Wisconsin Transportation Services began proposing changes to campus bus routes, including the Read…ĭuring the weekends, Route 80 will run every 25 minutes during the times between 12:00 p.m. Routes 80 and 84 will be modified not in their regular route locations, but in their frequencies and times of operation.įor the weekdays, the Metro proposed changes in the midday and afternoon peaks that will provide a longer service time, from 8:30 a.m. The bus routes expected to see changes in August are routes 80, 81, 82 and 84. Madison Metro Transit and the City of Madison Transportation Commission proposed plans to change the University of Wisconsin campus service bus routes, effective August 2020.
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