You're talking about an organization that is so bad at understanding what good public transit is, that a private bus (2bnb) outdid them by offering obvious routes people wanted, using trackers that were more reliable, 15 years ago. They stayed afloat for years on donations and had a full bus most of the time.

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The independent optometrist office attached to Costco is affordable! I've been using them without insurance. I think it was like 60-100 for a glasses and contacts prescription.

It's not really the type of platform as reddit, more akin to Twitter Mastodon instances are federated so you can follow people on other instances and they'll show up in your feed even though they're not members of your particular server

It used to be, but unfortunately their cooking style has started to cater to American palates the past couple years. Still tasty but only Chengdu will bring you to tears

Isn’t Peter Chang sichuan?

I took the 11am there from the stop by diversity. Tried to take it home going northbound from the stop off Cary and Sheppard. Suppose to be there by 130

I was tempted but my phone was on 2% as I got the uber home

I have a bike. I only ride it for exercise because my anxiety doesn't let me leave it anywhere.

Harris county in Texas (county that has Houston in it) has a hellcat redeye (about 1000 hp) in their fleet. article

Serious question wouldn't it be easier to set up as a subreddit? My ignorance here is vast but Mastodon instances kind of seem like DIY subreddits

Keyur Shah at VCU especially if you have amyloidosis

Could have been a signal/timeout issue. It queries the server but didn't get a response on that route in time, maybe defaults to this route isn't active?

What time are you riding? In the afternoon before 6ish, service is fairly frequent and I've never gotten "stuck" in Carytown after taking the bus. The only time I've Ubered home was when it was late and/or pouring rain.

Yes, it sucks sometimes. When this happens I ride one of Uber scooters.

Get a bike, fam

GRTC has always been shitty. This is why in transplant threads I say don’t come here expecting public transportation. We don’t have it.

I just want to get to and from carystreet without my car!!! I know its easier to drive there but this is the first time I'm living in richmond city proper and I shouldnt need to drive everywhere

You need to flip your truck over so you're not welding overhead, duh

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thats what I was using and why I'm so pissed off!!! I could see the blips on the live map. the bus passed me with not in service on. I check the map again and it has 0 scheduled stops for the one I was at when both GRTC and Google said it was suppose to be there by 1:30.

This link usually works. Sundays it’s a little off

Gives real time update

http://new.grtcbustracker.com/bustime/eta/eta.jsp?route=BRT&direction=West%20Bound&stop=WILLOW%20LAWN%20STATION&id=3501&showAllBusses=on

Buses not in service and buses that have the engine turned off (e.g. for the driver to make a pitstop) fall off the tracker. Buses that idle at their "reset stop" show up as DLY. Sometimes when a bus turns back on, the GPS fails to connect and it falls off the tracker. Knowing the schedule is imperative and be at stops ~10min before a scheduled bus as there are some occasions when drivers run a little fast (or start late because they know they will make up time).

In short, the app is more data, but much like the schedule, it's imperfect data. I've used the bus system since the revamp a few years ago for >50% of my in-town transit to various places, and that's what I've learned.

Check out the transit app, it takes the live info from grtc and set a warning when it is time to walk to the stop.

Two useful tricks:

1. Grtc app have real time info on the buses. You can see them as dots in the map if you add them, also save stops as favorites and you can see the predicted time for next bus at that stop
2. The transit app! It has real time info from grtc, alerts so you have a message when it is time to walk towards the stop and the buses also appears in the map. If you share your info you help the predictions improve.

I feel dumb it took me one year to find out about these things.