Drop offs at both hospitals will indeed continue. The hospitals get two buses every 30 minutes and there are bus shelters in place now.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Blackjack" <misterblackjack2@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: [tabi] Re: Fw: starmetro info
Yes, they should go to the Malls. I personally think since the mall is personal property and not owned by the city or county that they should pay for at least half of the upgrade to make a bus stop their. They would greatly benefit from it. Oh how about the two hospitals? Are they going to do pickup and drop off there as well? Thanks, Blackjack misterblackjack2@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message-----From: tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tabi-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On BehalfOf ericamccaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:39 AM To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [tabi] Re: Fw: starmetro info Robert & others,Erica here. I passed this info to Sila. I got if from Owen, who obtained itfrom StarMetro directly. And, yes, seniors, disabled, and school-age children all pay 60 cents. I'm pretty sure-- but not positive-- that when a discounted fare is deposited, the driver has to push a key-- presumably one of these 3 categories-- to have the fare box accept it as a valid fare. These figures and percentages are from 2008. Interestingly, also from 2008, 29,979 people boarded at Governor's SquareMall; that's over 85 people per day. There were about 25,000 people boarding at Tallahassee Mall. There still seems to be no concession from StarMetro on going into the malls. The argument for Tallahassee Mall, of course, is thatsince it is already in recievership (close to being bankrupt), why bother? This is NOT, however, a valid argument, of course, for Governor's Square. Another tidbit: In 2008, the malls were the only 2 stops among the top 20 (most boardings) which were not campus stops (FSU, FAMU, and TCC-- don't recall the order). So, 1) this jives with the 76% of riders being studentsfigure, and 2) makes it all the more ridiculous that they are refusing to gointo the malls! The manager at Gov. Square said he is totally in favor of the buses continuing to come into "his" mall... StarMetro is going to try to make the mall put up any money that would be needed for "improvements" to make the parking lot traverse safe. -----Original Message----- From: Easy Talk <easytalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tue, Oct 27, 2009 12:09 pm Subject: [tabi] Fw: starmetro infoHere is a message Sila sent to me. Not sure where she got the info though.I find it interesting that Star metro has such stats available. I guess they get them from the fair boxes and sales of bus passes but if the disabled fair and seniors pay the same, how do they determine between the two. That said not counting the regular riders approximately 14.3 percent of riders could be disenfranchised and most certainly some of the other riders. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sila Miller" <MillerSi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <easytalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <silam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:10 AM Subject: starmetro info 89 thousand seniors 53 thousand disabled out of the 4.2 million3 quarters of those were covered under university contracts Thus out of theapproximate 1 million left, 5.3 percent disabled 9 percent seniors so, disabled not such a small percentage after all Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI and please make suggestions for new material. if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org web interface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject. Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABI and please make suggestions for new material. if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org webinterface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxwith the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.Check out the TABI resource web page at http://acorange.home.comcast.net/TABIand please make suggestions for new material.if you'd like to unsubscribe you can do so through the freelists.org web interface, or by sending an email to the address tabi-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject.
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