The revised Route 1: East Mason will change from its current format. This proposed route is intended to travel along East Mason, service the I-43 Industrial Park and Aurora Medical Center and then return downtown.
This proposed route is one hour long with two buses effectively delivering 30-minute service from downtown to Aurora; and from Aurora to downtown. This proposal takes part of the current Route 14: Edison and matches it with Route 1. The revised Route 14 will be discussed in another post.
Route 1 outbound will leave the transit center and travel south on Monroe then head east along East Mason Street. The bus will travel into the East Town Mall, but only along the perimeter access road. The bus will then continue east along East Mason Street to the I-43 Industrial Park. The route will enter the park on Challenger Drive and proceed along a counter-clockwise route along Voyager-Keppler Drive before terminating at Aurora BayCare Medical Center.
The Inbound Route 1 will depart Aurora and continue in a counter-clockwise direction along Walker Drive, turning left onto Lowell Drive and heading east towards Discovery Road. The bus will travel north on Discovery to Voyager, turning left on Voyager and exiting the business park on Challenger Drive. The route will inbound, stopping once again at the East Town Mall perimeter access road, and then head west on East Mason back to Monroe Avenue. The route will travel north along Monroe before terminating at the Transit Center.
It is our desire that the new Route 1 will provide enhanced opportunity for shopping and access to medical and employment opportunities along East Mason and the I-43 Industrial Park. Please provide your thoughts on this revised route.
I have included a copy of the current route as well as the proposed route. The are attached in Adobe PDF format.
Bus_Stop_Route_1.pdf
Propose_Route_1.pdf
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I sure hope and pray that #14 goes down Bellevue street becasue a lot of people depend on it going by the Express Gas Station!!! You would leave us high and dry because we would have to take a cab just to get to the bus stop!!! I really like the idea of it going almost all the way to the hosptal because where it is now it is a mile walk. What about making Saturday longer in the moring? I barly get to work and it is always 3 minutes late. What about Sunday?? People do like to go to chruch you know!!!
I agree with this person. To take Bellevue street would be a good thing. It would take more money than I have to spend just to get to a bus stop on the edison bus. Why can't you go twice an hour rather than once? You have enough money to get new buses why can't you get enough people to make it every half hour instead of an hour. What about people who don't get done until after 10pm?? You are going to leave them out and have them pay a lot just to take a cab. It would be really great if you would extend your hours during the week, on Saturdays and make some time on Sunday. Cabs are expensive but buses are cheap. Please make things easier for the community not harder.
I like the East Mason rote just the way it is and i do not have to walk so far to get on the East Mason bus and goes rignht there i want to go if you take .
I currently get on on Edgewood Drive, but won't mind the extra block-and-a-half walk to get on at East Mason. My concern is, however, for the safety of those who will now have to wait on East Mason at the Alpine and Edgewood intersections, especially heading inbound, as traffic coming down East Mason off of I-43 usually comes flying through there at 50 mph and doesn't slow down if the traffic signals are green. If there is a lot of snow in the winter, does the city plan to keep those bus stops cleared so passengers won't have to stand in the street? Otherwise you're looking at somebody potentially getting hurt by traffic while waiting for the bus. The better solution would be to have the bus leave Aurora hospital and go down Greenbrier to Manitowoc Road and turn up Edgewood to East Mason.
I agree with routing this bus back up Edgewood after leaving the hospital, via Greenbrier. Mostly for the physically and mentally challenged who live in the group home on Edgewood and ride the bus regularly. They shouldn't be expected to walk up to and have to cross Mason to catch the bus going inbound. I live in the area and walk regularly to Walgreens and can attest to the fact that drivers heading down East Mason off I-43 go too fast. Anyone standing at the corner of Edgewood and East Mason to catch the inbound bus will be putting their lives at risk. Please reconsider this route as currently proposed!!
I'm just glad that a bus will still go out to the I-43 Industrial Park, there are a lot of people who work out there that depend on the bus. I'm just one of them. I think there would have to be huge increase in ridership and/or fares to warrant Sunday schedules. Otherwise, who will foot the bill for that?
finally, both parts of east mason on one route. it should go down finger rd and go edison on school days, though. Even just like it currently does.
However you need to create a new separate route out of what you're eliminating. A route that travels by st. vincent and skim the astor park area (via elisa st)in place of the Monroe, then (after coming up baird and crossing the bridge at e. mason)it would service the part of bellevue st. the East Mason would lose, then it should come back (on abrams)and service crooks st like the Edison currently does. It would use webster ave to and from the transit center.
So when is this new route supposed to take effect? There is no mention either here, nor at the new post regarding revised Rt. 14! All my driver can tell me is "sometime in August" More info, please!
Bravo DePere!
Rethink leaving Bellelvue Street off the route. To Allouez Ave. would be good; to Princeton a must.
Good ridance to Jadin's Folly - the trollys.
Now work on replacing those little white law suits waitng to happen. I have been thrown out of my seat into another passenger's lap and have seen books, groceries, and packages drop to the floor at stops and turns. Children are potential torpedoes and yes, parents are responsible. However, so too is First Transit and the city.
Which bus will service the Aging Resource Center?
i live on juniper dr and no bus will come my me well i have been taken the bus for 20 year and i didnt like at all
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