[Noisebridge-discuss] late night BART: not so much

[Sean Cusack]

Isn't this just a really badly designed survey? For instance, I ride the
muni late at night because I'm a drunk ass. If muni asked me if I thought it
would be a good idea to put more muni buses out late at night at the expense
of muni buses at 8AM, I'd likely say yes.

Now, if they asked an 8AM rider the same question (i.e. would you like to
lose some buses early in the morning so some late night riders can get their
drunk asses home easier), of *course* they would answer no. What benefit do
they have of letting late night riders get more buses?

I'm intrigued to see how they think they teased out the last bit of info
tho...

Sean

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Lee Sonko <lee at lee.org> wrote:

> BART did some surveying to see if they could run 1 hour later on Friday
> night. They say they need to do track work every night so they would have to
> start 1 hour later on Saturday morning. It sounds a little funny that track
> work must happen every single night, but hey.
>
> Here's the news article:
> http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2011/news20110620.aspx
>
> From the survey: (
> http://www.bart.gov/docs/Night_Service_Survey_Results.pdf)
> --------------------------------------------------
> *  81% of late-Friday riders thought extending Friday service 1 hour and
> reducing Saturday service 1 hour was an excellent or good idea, i.e.,
> approved it
> *  25% of early Saturday riders approved this change
> ...
> * The proposal to extend Friday night service by one hour while delaying
> the start of Saturday morning  service by one hour would have a
> disproportionately high and adverse impact on minority and low income rider
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> The BART Board of Directors will discuss at its June 23 meeting whether to
> proceed with a pilot proposal for later service on Friday nights. But it's
> not looking likely.
>
>
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