This is an absolute banger of a route. Super convenient for people who live ~just far enough~ to not be on major corridors/routes like #26 and #22. Look at how many people are within a single ride to W117 AND Steelyard!
@jsteirer i dunno. i think proclaiming one-seat trips as a benefit belies the current inconvenience of transferring throughout the system.
@clmwalkscle I don't think they have to be mutually exclusive, but I agree that there is a a lot of truth to that. I think it differs for routes but this is a route that could be a rare best of both worlds
@clmwalkscle If a route is going on a straight line through ammenity-rich areas then it will inherently be a one-seat ride for many people. And if it's also intersecting other major routes then frequency makes it an efficient extension of those routes. This one can do both.
@jsteirer when you grab the 25 in tremont, where are you coming from? where are you going?
@clmwalkscle Usually home, so I ride it though Steelyard to W98. This is because it's usually faster than walking back to the Red Line. If it was more frequent it would be an easy quick ride to the train, but it isn't.
@clmwalkscle And aside from the Steelyard diversion, which I think is a reasonable trip people would want to make when using this route, it is pretty much a line. The connection downtown is the part that it maybe doesn't actually need.
@jsteirer yeah, it's from downtown to lakeview terrace to steelyard where it's trying to be a second line. if we had more service, more lines, and more convenient means of transferring, you could have a 25 do your steelyard to west blvd. station route and another to do the n-s bit.
@jsteirer personally, i'm not convinced we should bring community circulators back (more buses period please!) but pre-2008, the ohio city-tremont circulator ran basically from steelyard to lakeview, if i remember correct. and the 81 crossed the river at lorain to avoid w. 25, which was 👍
@clmwalkscle @jsteirer Yup. This is from a 2007 system map. Was much better back then
@clmwalkscle @jsteirer Altho, when I lived in downtown Cle, I did appreciate having a direct route to Steelyard, albeit on the 81, which wasn’t great.
@TomHorsman @jsteirer do you have more of these maps, please? would be nice to show the board of trustees what services they can help restore.
@TomHorsman @clmwalkscle @jsteirer I loved the old 25. It ran a basically perfect route for me. It hit my school, work, home, and most frequently visited spots. It did that on a schedule perfectly synced to my life. I would do terrible things to have a bus route that good again.
@TomHorsman @clmwalkscle @jsteirer It sucks that someone thought it was a good idea to build our main retail in an industrial valley. It's always going to be hard to serve and makes me think of how the transit network could be better with better land use planning. x.com/humantransit/s…
@TomHorsman @clmwalkscle @jsteirer It sucks that someone thought it was a good idea to build our main retail in an industrial valley. It's always going to be hard to serve and makes me think of how the transit network could be better with better land use planning. x.com/humantransit/s…