Comments on: De-car-ing, month 5 http://greenlagirl.com/de-car-ing-month-5/ Urban environmental lifestyle blog in Los Angeles Tue, 22 May 2012 01:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Siel http://greenlagirl.com/de-car-ing-month-5/comment-page-1/#comment-15162 Siel Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:54:09 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/10/04/de-car-ing-month-5/#comment-15162 Ok -- That still seems complicated to me... I'm glad I have yr email now, so I can ask random bus Qs if need be :P Ok — That still seems complicated to me… I’m glad I have yr email now, so I can ask random bus Qs if need be :P

]]> By: Wad http://greenlagirl.com/de-car-ing-month-5/comment-page-1/#comment-14847 Wad Sun, 08 Oct 2006 05:49:32 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/10/04/de-car-ing-month-5/#comment-14847 It wasn't that daunting once I found the formula to add time in Excel. It's useful if you want to keep a cache of bus schedules on your own computer and print them, since Metro in particular has odd paper sizes. It's =sum(CELL+(FREQ/1440)) CELL is the cell above. You enter the first time row manually. FREQ is the frequency, in minutes, of the bus line. If the first time is 6 a.m. and the next bus is at 6:30 a.m., enter 30. That sped up the work. The hard part was redoing everything at different times since agencies have different shake-up dates. Shake-ups are transit agency lingo for periods when drivers get new bus runs and new schedules are released. Metro's two are in June and December. Long Beach has three, but not in even four-month increments. Some agencies don't update schedules frequently, and Gardena has not done a new schedule since the Green Line opened 11 years ago! It wasn’t that daunting once I found the formula to add time in Excel. It’s useful if you want to keep a cache of bus schedules on your own computer and print them, since Metro in particular has odd paper sizes.

It’s =sum(CELL+(FREQ/1440))

CELL is the cell above. You enter the first time row manually. FREQ is the frequency, in minutes, of the bus line. If the first time is 6 a.m. and the next bus is at 6:30 a.m., enter 30.

That sped up the work. The hard part was redoing everything at different times since agencies have different shake-up dates. Shake-ups are transit agency lingo for periods when drivers get new bus runs and new schedules are released. Metro’s two are in June and December. Long Beach has three, but not in even four-month increments. Some agencies don’t update schedules frequently, and Gardena has not done a new schedule since the Green Line opened 11 years ago!

]]> By: Siel http://greenlagirl.com/de-car-ing-month-5/comment-page-1/#comment-14833 Siel Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:15:00 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/10/04/de-car-ing-month-5/#comment-14833 Wow -- That schedule project sounds daunting, just reading about it. Still, now you're a walking, typing resource for the rest of us :) Wow — That schedule project sounds daunting, just reading about it. Still, now you’re a walking, typing resource for the rest of us :)

]]> By: Wad http://greenlagirl.com/de-car-ing-month-5/comment-page-1/#comment-14794 Wad Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:13:19 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/10/04/de-car-ing-month-5/#comment-14794 Yeah, I'm a veteran. I used to have this web site that would have the schedules of every transit agency in SoCal, from San Luis Obispo and Kern vounties to the north, San Diego and Imperial counties to the south, the ocean to the west and Las Vegas to the east. It just became a pain to update schedules, and the guy with the computer smarts couldn't keep up with maintenance because of work, and it ended up ceasing to operate. Yeah, I’m a veteran. I used to have this web site that would have the schedules of every transit agency in SoCal, from San Luis Obispo and Kern vounties to the north, San Diego and Imperial counties to the south, the ocean to the west and Las Vegas to the east.

It just became a pain to update schedules, and the guy with the computer smarts couldn’t keep up with maintenance because of work, and it ended up ceasing to operate.

]]> By: Siel http://greenlagirl.com/de-car-ing-month-5/comment-page-1/#comment-14789 Siel Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:13:05 +0000 http://greenlagirl.com/2006/10/04/de-car-ing-month-5/#comment-14789 Ok -- Lemme try the BBB 10 to the Dash first, then if that's still sketch, I'll try out the 534. Thanks for all the tips! You're like a bus route genius -- Ok — Lemme try the BBB 10 to the Dash first, then if that’s still sketch, I’ll try out the 534. Thanks for all the tips! You’re like a bus route genius –

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