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This is a blog that hopes to help with the confusion of bus riding in Vegas. Comments are encouraged. Spam is not encouraged. Comments that include websites will not be published. Allow time for moderation of all comments.



Monday, November 8, 2010

This blog is dedicated to bus issues.  For full Vegas trip reports see:
http://vegasbirthdaybash.blogspot.com/

navigational note:   I know this blog format is hard to navigate because it must be organized by date rather than topic.  Ignore posting dates like the one in orange above;  they are not accurate but used only for organization
THE EASIEST WAY TO NAVIGATE ALL THREADS IS TO CLICK THE BLACK ARROWS IN THE ACHIVES ON  THE RIGHT AND SKIM THROUGH THE POSTS BY TITLE.  THEY ARE ARTIFICIALLY GROUPED BY MONTH AND YEAR, BUT THAT MEANS NOTHING.   
Information on particular routes is collected in February 2010 posts.  Each post is titled by the bus route.  So if you want to know what I know about the 201, go to the Archives for February 2010 and find the post with that route in the title.  Otherwise skim reading is the way to read.

Hi and welcome: 
I am overjoyed to collect your bus stories, especially now that the routes have changed:
Where did you catch the bus?  Where did you get dropped? Why did you go?  What interesting destinations might some other bus rider learn about from you? What shopping did you access?  What restaurants?  What did you think of your experience?  Do you have an itinerary with many possibilities on a route you have ridden?  Where did you feel safe?  Where unsafe?  
Important:  If you send me your story, please add written clear permission to cut and paste it into this blog if you agree to offer that permission. I will also edit for grammar and spelling if you request it.

Saturday, November 6, 2010

we are not confused alone

I am in Vegas just now and happy to have put off trying to determine how the buses work.
I have asked this question of bus drivers and other folks, but I have not gone to the new BTC yet and asked or tried to call.
Here is my question:

So as a senior I can buy a 24 hour pass on the 202 for $2.
There is no upcharge.
Will the Deuce accept this pass?

No one seems to know.

At the end of my trip I'll be downtown with a 24 hour pass and I'll just take a Deuce ride to find out.
However, I don't want to spend a trip I planned particulary to not depend on buses during the transition asking questions and finding out information which in a month will most certainly change.
One board poster here thought the BTC had too much work to be done yet to be ready.

I do know that there is a continued erosion of the buses on Flamingo so that soon they will not go as far and will not go as often, coming at the times I need them most only every hour.  I think I will satisfy this issue on my trip next May by printing a 202 schedule of just the times that bus will be at Las Vegas Boulevard and another when it will be at Super 8.