Tulsa World
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Published: 7/21/20112:24 AM
Last Modified: 7/21/20117:56 AM
Jamie Drake is too busy living to worry about a Regional Transit System Plan.
On Wednesday, like most other weekdays, she was up before the sun rose to feed and dress her children, Akasha, 3, and Damian, 8 months. Out the door by 7 a.m., children in tow, she caught the 215 bus at 31st Street and Sheridan Road at 7:21 a.m. Thirty minutes later she was at the Denver Avenue bus station.
"I wouldn't be able to get things done" without the bus service, she said.
But Drake, a frequent bus rider for 15 years, knows the system could be better. Although the 215 is almost always on time, she said, other routes are less reliable.
"Used to be, you didn't have to wait more than 30 minutes," Drake said. "Now it's 45 minutes to an hour, or longer."
The draft version of the 25-year Regional Transit System Plan to be unveiled Thursday by the Indian Nations Council of Governments won't fix everything that ails the city's bus system, but it does offer suggestions to make it better.
It also lays out a vision for a more comprehensive regional transportation system anchored by seven "foundation" corridors suitable for high-capacity transportation systems... FULL ARTICLE
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Thu, July 21, 2011
by John Cox