Comments on: Here’s an Idea: New Water Taxi Service http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=446 Personal Thoughts and Ramblings Wed, 13 Nov 2013 06:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 By: epic http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=446#comment-110 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:00:52 +0000 http://www.darkfusion.net/blog/archives/446#comment-110 The only reply I can leave to that is to point out the travel times, both by car and by bus – I’ll use Metro’s Trip Planner to illustrate here. Try a trip from 3rd St. and Central Way in Kirkland to the University of Washington HUB transit stop. The origin is fairly reasonable, since it’s in the middle of downtown at one of the more popular parks in the area. Try planning it for 11/19 to arrive at 9AM, also fairly reasonable for an earlier class. Just to cut down on the hassle, I set it for fewest transfers as well. (By the way, if you really want to see stupid travel times, leave it on the default option of "Fastest Way" and watch it take an hour or so to get on campus.)

Note that I set it for the UW HUB simply because that’s the stop I’m most used to. According to that planner, you can get there in about 20 minutes if you don’t mind getting off down near the Medical Center. This assumes no traffic, which isn’t likely to be true at 8AM on any given weekday. So let’s inflate it to 30 minutes, just to allow for problems. That’s still not all that bad. By car, it’d be far worse, since you have to factor in time to find parking anywhere on campus (maybe close to your destination, if you’re abnormally lucky or earlier than anyone else).

]]> By: Peter Ellis http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=446#comment-112 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:00:00 +0000 http://www.darkfusion.net/blog/archives/446#comment-112 The only reply I can leave to that is to point out the travel times, both by car and by bus – I’ll use Metro’s Trip Planner to illustrate here. Try a trip from 3rd St. and Central Way in Kirkland to the University of Washington HUB transit stop. The origin is fairly reasonable, since it’s in the middle of downtown at one of the more popular parks in the area. Try planning it for 11/19 to arrive at 9AM, also fairly reasonable for an earlier class. Just to cut down on the hassle, I set it for fewest transfers as well. (By the way, if you really want to see stupid travel times, leave it on the default option of "Fastest Way" and watch it take an hour or so to get on campus.)
Note that I set it for the UW HUB simply because that’s the stop I’m most used to. According to that planner, you can get there in about 20 minutes if you don’t mind getting off down near the Medical Center. This assumes no traffic, which isn’t likely to be true at 8AM on any given weekday. So let’s inflate it to 30 minutes, just to allow for problems. That’s still not all that bad. By car, it’d be far worse, since you have to factor in time to find parking anywhere on campus (maybe close to your destination, if you’re abnormally lucky or earlier than anyone else).

]]> By: Zach Hale http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=446#comment-109 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:33:29 +0000 http://www.darkfusion.net/blog/archives/446#comment-109 The time people would have to wait to travel on these taxis wouldn’t be worth it if they already have driving and bussing options in place. Also, since people have such obvious other easy options the cost of these services would deter people from using them because of the costs involved. At least, I imagine these are true … based on wild-ass scientific guesses on my part.

]]> By: Zach Hale http://www.petercellis.com/blog/?p=446#comment-111 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:33:00 +0000 http://www.darkfusion.net/blog/archives/446#comment-111 The time people would have to wait to travel on these taxis wouldn’t be worth it if they already have driving and bussing options in place. Also, since people have such obvious other easy options the cost of these services would deter people from using them because of the costs involved. At least, I imagine these are true … based on wild-ass scientific guesses on my part.

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