To the editor:
I read with interest your May 30 editorial about the K-10 Connector bus. There is another group of people who might be interested in a similar run, people going from Lawrence Memorial Hospital to the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan. There are those of us for whom that drive is too difficult, including the elderly and some people with cancer.
Merging those two groups could take more cars off the road, thus contributing to diminishing of highway congestion, provide a real service to a needful community, and perhaps help to keep this service available to the student community as well.
Comments
kansasplains1 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This is a great idea!
Let's find a way to make it happen!
phred 11 months, 3 weeks ago
This would also be useful for KU folks going between both campuses.
Frankie8 11 months, 3 weeks ago
It can be incredibly difficult to get from point A to point B and it can leave you feeling frustrated and baffled. Health and education needs should be at the top of the list when it comes to aid and funding. Thanks for the letter. Hopefully more people will think about it.
none2 11 months, 3 weeks ago
There is ALMOST a way to do that now...
1) Take the K-10 Connector http://www.thejo.com/pdf/maps/710.pdf Get off at JCCC
2) Transfer at JCCC to the JO 575 http://www.thejo.com/pdf/maps/575-875.pdf Get off at 75th and Metcalf
3) Transfer at 75th and Metcalf to the JO 667 http://www.thejo.com/pdf/maps/667.pdf Get off at KU Med Center.
Lets say you take the 6am bus from Lawerence. You get to JCCC at 7:00am.
At 7:10am (just a 10 minute wait) you can catch the 575. At 7:40am it is at 75th and Metcalf at 7:46am it is at Mission. It doesn't have an official time for 75th and Nall, but I would expect it around 7:43am.
Now here is where there is a problem. the JO 667 only runs twice in the morning, and twice in the evening. If you could get the JO to do more than 2 AM & 2 PM routes at for 667, and you have the problem solved. Lets say there were two more AM routes. The current two am routes start at 6:31am and 7:01am. Imagine a fourth route at 7:31am and 8:01 am. The 3rd am route would get to 75th and Null at 7:42 am, so you would miss that one by about a minute. However, the 4th would get to 7th & Nall around 8:12am. You would have been waiting about 29 minutes, but you would be able to catch it. You would get to KU Med around 8:39am. Now granted such a ride took you about 2 hours and 40 minutes, but you didn't have to drive. Except for that last transfer wait, it isn't too long of a wait.
Anyway, I don't think you need a another route for this just from Lawrence to KU Med as much as you need the metro area to have better transfers and have some of their routes more than just twice in the morning & twice nt eh evenings. I cannot imagine that there isn't more demand for people in Johnson county to get to KU Med. Fix that, and then the rest would fall into place.
merrill 11 months, 2 weeks ago
If some demand were presented to the JO people perhaps the none2 suggestions would materialize.
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