Never mind that Spear has no congestion problems. It would also require
that Overhead Lines would have to install at least two diamonds and two
switches and a block of new overhead...might even cost money.
>So I trace the wires to Main Street, where there is the wire for the 1/41 already. I thought to myself that this is a disaster waiting to happen. First of all, Main Street is heavily clogged with traffic in the evening.
Actually, once you cross Mission, the traffic isn't too bad
>As Robert states, the switch from Mission right onto Main is impossible to make safely as configured. Between Mission and Market, there is a mid-block wire change for the move to make the left onto Market. Mid-block lane/wire changes for trolley coaches are difficult enough when traffic is free, let alone when it is jammed up. It's like the mid-block switches on 4th Street before Mission, and before Folsom.
Better than putting the switch right at Market St. Cheaper than putting
it 1/4 or 1/3 block closer to Mission and giving buses more time to deal
with traffic
Oh Well...3-Jackson today...with the really good looking on paper
transit lanes from Franklin to Stockton, that actually are a textbook
example of how not to: too narrow to safely operate a bus inside the
lane lines, NO ENFORCEMENT (they are de facto parking lanes, that go
with the de facto parking lanes on the other side of the street: which
makes the street 1 land wide). And the 1-California tonight...lessee if
OHL goes out and blocks us for an hour or two again.
Robert