AATA Route 5 student move-in detour details
The AATA's #5 route is detoured during student move-in. When I rode the bus yesterday, a number of people were visibly upset at bus stops because their bus had not come for an hour. Today's bus took a different detour than yesterday's. I plotted everything I could find, and marked the nearest good stop that was reachable by all of the various detour routes that are plausible.
This contradicts the posted information, which says
Route 5 Packard To Ann Arbor: Regular route on Packard to State to William to Fourth to the Blake Transit Center. There will be no service on Thompson Street.
To Ypsilanti or Meijer: Regular route from the Blake Transit Center to William and Thompson, continuing on William to State to Packard to resume regular route. There will be no service on Thompson Street.
I don't know if the Packard detour was a planned detour from the detour (traffic was mighty bad) or a rogue driver, but I can easily imagine first-time new transit riders being angry and upset.
UPDATE:
Dear Edward Vielmetti: That was an error on our part and we apologize for the mistake. Sincerely, The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority
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The bus stop in front of Jimmy John's now has a "route is detoured" sign:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/swthomas/1289558291/
Posted by:Spencer | August 31, 2007 at 10:00 PM