Days of Reckoning, Part II
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Today's entry: Somebody who fell for the "TOD" hype and moved into Crestview Station so they could walk to the Red Line and take it to work at UT. Morning commute this time around; assume they want to get in comfortably before 9:00AM. Note that the Red Line shuttle drops off on San Jacinto; the two bus options here drop off on Guadalupe; the typical UT office is, if anything, closer to Guadalupe than San Jacinto.
Spoiler: Even the local bus beats the Red Line, because of the shuttle-bus trip. Yes, even though that local bus travels through half of the congestion on the Drag.
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In short, Capital Metro enablers like SecretAgentMan have brought us a service that not only precludes good light rail on the 2000 corridor, but is going to be objectively slower than existing express bus service and even local bus service in this example.