Bus station blues — redux

Sorry to be gone so long. Just spent more than a week in Memphis, Tenn., helping produce a planning “charrette” for the Knight Program in Community Building, based at the University of Miami. If you’re curious about that, see this link.

You’ll recall that on June 23 I described my experience trying to take Bus 14 home from uptown. And you’ll recall that July 11 I reported that Charlotte Area Transit System CEO Ron Tober told me things would get fixed.

Herewith a report from my newsroom colleague Joe Sovacool, who rides the bus to work daily:

“The good news is that 14 is now correctly listed on the displays at the bus barn as bay A. The bad news is that the times for all routes on the displays have been wrong all week.Well, they’re likely right twice in a 24-hour period – they either read about 12:50p or 11:30p for all routes.

“This is not only not unheard-of, but common. Too bad, because when they’re functional they’re one of the better and more useful features over there.

“And I can predict what their response will be. To a bum like me, anyway. …”