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Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
(not to mention like 1,000 obama hired to work office jobs at the waste facility - doing what? is a damn wonder - but that's just every day democrat theft going on)
Welcome to Fairfax Underground, a project site designed to improve communication among residents of Fairfax County, VA. Feel free to post anything Northern Virginia residents would find interesting.
Dude, where’s my bus? Fairfax Connector to launch bus tracker
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Date: January 09, 2017 03:21PM
http://wtop.com/sprawl-crawl/2017/01/dude-wheres-my-bus-fairfax-co-to-launch-tracking-system-soon/
Dude, where’s my bus? Fairfax Connector to launch bus tracker
By Max Smith | @amaxsmith January 9, 2017 12:51 pm
RESTON, Va. — Catching the bus is about to get easier in Fairfax County.
Fairfax Connector could launch a public bus-tracking system as early as March that will allow riders to see how many minutes away the next bus is from their stop.
“We have the program, it’s up and running,” said county Transportation Director Tom Besiadny. “We’re in the middle of testing it right now to make sure that the … computer system that works behind the scenes is accurate enough to do the prediction.”
“People will be able to tell when they’re in their house, when they’re having breakfast, what time do they need to leave to get to the bus stop to get the bus and not miss it,” he added. “They don’t have to wonder did it come by? Is it broken? “
The new Fairfax Connector bus-tracking service that riders will be able to access online, through a smartphone or via telephone is built on the same platform as Metro’s relatively new busETA system. Fairfax Connector arrival times are expected to be accessed separately from Metrobus, but a number of transit apps are likely to combine the services.
Fairfax County awarded the contract for the bus-tracking system in 2015, with initial uses of the technology focusing on improving bus dispatching, schedules and communication for bus operators.
The buses now all have automatic vehicle-location systems and are announcing the next stop over loudspeakers and displaying the stops on digital displays. Other bus systems in the region including Montgomery County’s RideOn, Prince George’s County’s TheBus, Loudoun County Transit and Fairfax City’s CUE buses have similar tracking systems for riders.
“This is intended to make transit more accessible to everyone,” Besiadny said. “One of the reasons that people don’t take transit right now is that they’re not really sure when the bus is going to show up. They may have a timetable, but having that reliability [of] knowing for sure that the bus is two minutes away or five minutes away makes it much more attractive for people to use.”
Right now, Fairfax Connector buses carry about 40,000 riders each weekday to and from Metro stations, VRE stops, other bus lines and destinations like the Pentagon.
A new express route will launch this summer between the Fairfax County Government Center and the State Department in Foggy Bottom.
“The next couple of years we’re really going to be focused on the (Interstate) 66 corridor, both outside and inside the Beltway,” Besiadny said.
Some money from the rush-hour tolls for solo-drivers that begin on I-66 inside the Capital Beltway this summer and later 24/7 tolls for people who do not meet carpool requirements in the Express Lanes that are scheduled to open in 2022 between the Beltway and Gainesville will fund transit service like Fairfax Connector.
The idea, state leaders say, is to provide drivers with alternatives to paying the tolls that still encourage fewer cars on the road.
Dude, where’s my bus? Fairfax Connector to launch bus tracker
By Max Smith | @amaxsmith January 9, 2017 12:51 pm
RESTON, Va. — Catching the bus is about to get easier in Fairfax County.
Fairfax Connector could launch a public bus-tracking system as early as March that will allow riders to see how many minutes away the next bus is from their stop.
“We have the program, it’s up and running,” said county Transportation Director Tom Besiadny. “We’re in the middle of testing it right now to make sure that the … computer system that works behind the scenes is accurate enough to do the prediction.”
“People will be able to tell when they’re in their house, when they’re having breakfast, what time do they need to leave to get to the bus stop to get the bus and not miss it,” he added. “They don’t have to wonder did it come by? Is it broken? “
The new Fairfax Connector bus-tracking service that riders will be able to access online, through a smartphone or via telephone is built on the same platform as Metro’s relatively new busETA system. Fairfax Connector arrival times are expected to be accessed separately from Metrobus, but a number of transit apps are likely to combine the services.
Fairfax County awarded the contract for the bus-tracking system in 2015, with initial uses of the technology focusing on improving bus dispatching, schedules and communication for bus operators.
The buses now all have automatic vehicle-location systems and are announcing the next stop over loudspeakers and displaying the stops on digital displays. Other bus systems in the region including Montgomery County’s RideOn, Prince George’s County’s TheBus, Loudoun County Transit and Fairfax City’s CUE buses have similar tracking systems for riders.
“This is intended to make transit more accessible to everyone,” Besiadny said. “One of the reasons that people don’t take transit right now is that they’re not really sure when the bus is going to show up. They may have a timetable, but having that reliability [of] knowing for sure that the bus is two minutes away or five minutes away makes it much more attractive for people to use.”
Right now, Fairfax Connector buses carry about 40,000 riders each weekday to and from Metro stations, VRE stops, other bus lines and destinations like the Pentagon.
A new express route will launch this summer between the Fairfax County Government Center and the State Department in Foggy Bottom.
“The next couple of years we’re really going to be focused on the (Interstate) 66 corridor, both outside and inside the Beltway,” Besiadny said.
Some money from the rush-hour tolls for solo-drivers that begin on I-66 inside the Capital Beltway this summer and later 24/7 tolls for people who do not meet carpool requirements in the Express Lanes that are scheduled to open in 2022 between the Beltway and Gainesville will fund transit service like Fairfax Connector.
The idea, state leaders say, is to provide drivers with alternatives to paying the tolls that still encourage fewer cars on the road.
Re: Dude, where’s my bus? Fairfax Connector to launch bus tracker
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Date: January 09, 2017 06:59PM
I'M GOING TO START GIVING FX CO GOVERMENT TICKETS. THREE JUST LAST WEEK.
CITATION #1: FAIRFAX CONNECTOR BUS DRIVING AT NIGHT WITHOUT LIGHTS ON. HONKING DIDN'T REMIND THE DRIVER - AND OTHER DRIVERS DIDN'T EVEN FLASH. PITIFUL. (a vehicle that size is a death machine and must be treated as such)
CITATION #2: TRASH TRUCK SPEWING - billowing - SMOKE. IT COULDN'T HAVE PASSED INSPECTION - AND THE LAW THEY KNOW WELL IS IF IT'S SMOKING - THEY CAN GET A TICKET ON THE SPOT (diesel trucks do not get to wait till inspection to fix smoking stacks)
CITATIONS #3: waste facility area never cleaned in ? likely 8 years since dems took over. floors that citizens *must* walk on stinky and covered with a deep wax that sticks on shoes (and tracks into homes, we science types now include manditorily infact - tracking is part of OSHA chemical/bio hazard law today). and on top of the paste: thick spills of god knows what to walk around
(in other words for #3 - they never bother to even host the damn bays - let alone clean them like they're supposed to)
(not to mention like 1,000 obama hired to work office jobs at the waste facility - doing what? is a damn wonder - but that's just every day democrat theft going on)
Re: Dude, where’s my bus? Fairfax Connector to launch bus tracker
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Date: January 09, 2017 07:03PM
does anyone have an idea how may chemicals (ie, mercury) and bio waste (8 year old rancid paste) might track in to one's home after walking on something like that?
ALLOT - it can be illegal ammounts
(ie osha rules: people who get certain auto fluids on shoes regularly cannot track it into housing areas: they MUST clean or change - it is that dangerous)
ALLOT - it can be illegal ammounts
(ie osha rules: people who get certain auto fluids on shoes regularly cannot track it into housing areas: they MUST clean or change - it is that dangerous)