tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383367803115732345.post1886910601329043600..comments2023-05-27T02:46:57.436-07:00Comments on RT Rider: Second Saturday on the trainAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08070861046420451305noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383367803115732345.post-56629898855195808922008-06-15T23:00:00.000-07:002008-06-15T23:00:00.000-07:00Oh, I have to see that ad. I can understand advert...Oh, I have to see that ad. I can understand advertising savings on daily commute, but on the weekend? That's just too funny. <BR/><BR/>RT should make Sunday service free. It is so inadequate and worthless that charging for it is like committing fraud.<BR/><BR/>However, I did see others going downtown on the train for the Second Saturday festivities. At the Marconi station a group of adult men, all white with prison tattoos, boarded. At the next stop, they greeted four more friends. It turns out the "friends" had been kicked off the earlier train and had to wait for the next one. This one guy kept asking where they were going and the other guy said, "We'll just follow the crowd." I figured this was a field trip from a halfway house somewhere near the light rail station.<BR/><BR/>OK, I'm guessing about the "prison tattoos," but this gang was a real odd bunch to be riding together on light rail.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08070861046420451305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6383367803115732345.post-60718817534289790082008-06-15T11:48:00.000-07:002008-06-15T11:48:00.000-07:00For anyone planning to attend Second Saturday via ...For anyone planning to attend Second Saturday via Regional Transit, I think the rule for traveling on RT on Saturday afternoons is "disregard the schedule." My plan was to catch the 87 at 4:47, get to CSUS at 4:59 and jump on the waiting 30, which leaves at 5:00. The 87 was thirteen minutes late. It picked up a few minutes and got to CSUS eleven minutes late. I'd missed my intended connection but luckily the next 30 was already sitting there so I only had to wait nine more minutes before heading to midtown.<BR/><BR/>The trip home was equally confusing. The 30 arrived at my stop five minutes early, which meant I had a longer wait at the desolate CSUS campus. The 82 arrived right on time - amazing! <BR/><BR/>Oh, and nobody on those buses (besides me) appeared to be making the trip for Second Saturday. Why should they, when the buses are so rarely on schedule? It's incredibly frustrating. RT is running a full-page ad on the back page of the Sacramento News & Review this week, with the headline "Thinking of giving up your weekend fun? ...It's time to try transit." The fine print explains that you can save money for your weekends if you take transit a couple times during the week. Obviously, taking transit ON the weekends isn't feasible - or fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com