First and foremost... None of the routes, save for 2 or 3, meet anywhere except AT THE FRIGGIN' HOSPITAL. I don't want to go to the hospital. I don't want to go in that direction AT ALL.
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They don't even serve EITHER of the university campuses, any of the 4 small colleges or trade schools, or any of the major employers (Harley Davidson, York International Heating & Air Conditioning, that kind of thing). They serve TWO residential areas within the city itself. Some of the outlying 'burbs have a bus that comes through a couple times a day - but after 6, you're screwed.
I see more of their Paratransit vehicles than their normal buses - which is $2.50-$3 per trip for disabled people only. Not too shabby for what essentially amounts to a REALLY BIG taxi. I actually see so many of them that I thought they were the primary service until I actually moved here.
And on the topic of the Paratransit vehicles... Those are nice. They're clean. They're biodiesel fueled. They look like they ride very nicely. They have more seats than the real buses do. The buses on the other hand... They belch HUGE plumes of black diesel exhaust, usually filled with chunky ****** (this happened even before the biodiesel transition, and to my knowledge, they're still using normal diesel in the route buses). The white lettering on the back of the bus is usually covered in a thick black dust (if it's not, it just rained a few minutes ago). The whole vehicle lurches around when stopping. That's how you can tell that they're stopping - the lights almost never work.
And finally. RABBIT. TRANSIT. Whoever named it should be SHOT. I prefer not to think about how this name really came about, and instead mentally attribute it to the Duke3d level "Rabid Transit".
