Urban Tulsa Weekly

carolsue1ok, 10/19/2012 - 1:55am
"I rode the bus for 2 years and the biggest concern I had was I get to most places but how do you get home at night? The night line is not really a good bus service at all. the buses don't intersect and they don't go where you need them and they take forever to get anywhere. The biggest problem I see is if you have a job and it is not 9-5 monday-friday unless you live within walking distance than you are out of luck. I think the saturday bus service is too short. I think instead of giving so many people discounts if you would raise the price of their monthly fare from 20.00 to regular 40.00 a month that would greatly increase the money coming in. Also if I could have one wish it would be to have a bus on a grid and not in the strange shape is it on now. I live in a straight line about 2 miles from where I used to work and I had to take 2 buses to go two miles with anywhere 30 minutes to an 1 hour wait between the two buses. Also they don't run on sunday or holidays. I worked on Sundays and Holidays part of the time. If they could even have a shorter schedule on Sunday that would help. Also the buses don't always connect the way I want them to. If you go one way than it is like get off one bus, wait a few minutes and get on the next but then coming back you get off the first bus, wait 30, 45, or an hour for the second bus. Your bus station is not that entertaining. In conclusion I did live 2 years without a car using only buses or walking. It was not easy, people on the street would honk and yell really rude things to me. But with some planning and will power you can do it."