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Folks are asking for the schedules for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Folks are asking about the Free Ride on New Year's Eve.
Just posted on RTD's FaceBook Page is (and their home page) is this schedule:
"-Wondering what our service schedule for bus and light rail will be like over the holidays?
-Monday 12/24 Christmas Eve: weekday schedule;
-Tuesday 12/25 Christmas Day: holiday schedule;
-Wednesday 12/26 day after Christmas: weekday schedule;
-Monday 12/31 New Years Eve: weekday schedule, FREE service after 7pm;
-Tuesday 1/01: holiday schedule, FREE service until 6am"
Oh yeah, and another thing that's posted on their home page and y'all are asking about are the schedule changes that begin on January 6, 2013.
As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Merry Christmas to All & to All Let's Roll!"
And your trips for free...
I want my, I want my, I want my trips for free.
LOL, gotta love Dire Straits.
With our new Smart Cards coming out in January - The Eco & College Passes - and the My Card for monthly & discount users, etc, there are other benefits coming as well.
One of those is the ability to use Credit Cards on the Light Rail systems.
More and more I'm hearing customers getting frustrated with the fare box and ticket vending machine's inability to accept credit slash debit cards.
Well, finally you're going to get your wishes.
This Summer the Light Rail ticket vending machines will be updated to accept credit cards.
And that's the extent of what I've heard slash read slash been told.
If you want more information you'll have to call 303.299.CARD and visit the web page for more:
( RTD SMART CARD )
That said, here's my two cents.
And it's actually .275% rather than two cents.
What's the going rate on credit card transactions?
Isn't it like around 3 tenths of a percent of the transaction?
Folks, you remember that RTD is a tax payer supported municipality, right?
If you demand that RTD buy new trains, new buses, build new lines and add new routes, more frequent service, etc etc etc....
You KNOW who has to pay for that, right?
If y'all are asking RTD to start accepting credit cards, you realize that the price of the ride has to increase to reflect at least the increase in cost of providing that service you demanded, right?
RTD doesn't make a profit, so you're asking them to either not raise fares but cut back other services to afford this service or you're going to have to accept the cost increase when they come to the tax payer and ask for an increase in taxes and raise the fares to reflect the increased service demand.
And of course that's just my two cents slash .275%.
I've not heard ANY rumours of fare increases or anything.
I'm just thinking this through.
Personally, I think the entire system should be user supported, riders paying for the service they use, not the tax payer.
But I also think that regular yearly increases, like a nickel or dime each year.
Something that we can all count on so the extra quarter neither surprises nor offends us.
And something RTD can count on to continue to use to increase the services we demand.
Anywho, what I think and what happens in reality are usually far apart but we'll see how this comes to pass.
Get it?
"Comes to...PASS?"
See what I did there?
Jeesh, never mind...lol
As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Put away your Credit Cards - Let's Roll!"
As far as Drivers and over all employees go here at work, I feel as if I'm in that top ten percent of folks who are easy going, let crap roll off our shoulders, smile, turn the other cheek, etc.
I think I'm pretty danged tolerant but I know some folks who make me look like I've got a short fuse and I'm grumpy all the time.
That said, I tend to find my customers/passengers entertaining and fun, far more than annoying and intolerable.
I hear the rants, I see the crazy and I'm amused - free entertainment while I'm getting paid!
But lately I've been hearing more and more of the ignorant side to the whining.
For example:
"RTD takes more and more money, cuts more and more routes & services but could care less about being on time, keeping schedules and customer service."
( Reasons Why )
I love this link because it explains a butt load of things RTD does.
I guarantee you that 3 in 4 of you whiners don't have the patience to read even one of those FAQs but for the rest of you, take the time to read that through and I guarantee you that you'll have at least one, "Ohhhhh!" moment.
I've been here for three years now and still read that and get those Ah-ha moments.
But for those of you who feel entitled to RTD's services, that RTD owes you a cheap ride, at all hours of the day & night, from your front door to your destination - let me sum this up for you:
Call a cab and get over yourself.
Seriously.
I hear these ignorant comments about the high fares, RTD just charging more and more and giving less and less, about Drivers who can't keep schedules, etc and all I can think of is how sad y'all make me.
I'm saddened by such a lack of intelligence, such a lack of care or concern - of over all understanding of how the world around you works.
Blah - I still love my job, my customers and most of my co-workers.
I've just had it up to here (holding my hand up to my eyebrows) with the stupidity - the pure hatred to accuse me and my co-workers of such sloth.
So please - take 30 minutes out of your day surfing FaceBook, 30 minutes out of your day playing your video games or watching TV to read about a service for which you and I pay, a service that you use and upon which you count to get you back and forth all day.
Then let's talk.
As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Read THIS while you're on the bus - Let's Roll!"
Wait, wrong version of that song!
When I post about the negative affects of the union on RTD, its employees and its customers - I get emails and comments asking me whether I love my job.
Usually along the lines of, "If you hate it there so much, you should just quit!"
But these are simply the taunts of those who support the oppressive socialist union and hate RTD and her customers.
I love my job.
I love helping folks get to and from their points.
I love when folks tell me I'm the best Driver they've ever ridden with, or that they appreciate what I do or whatever the comments are.
I love the variety, the myriad of it all.
I love the conversations y'all have with me.
I've loved the sightseeing and touring I've done around the Front Range.
There is nothing bad about working here at RTD.
Nothing that is except when it comes to the union.
The union forces RTD to discriminate, to oppress, to make life and morale crap around here.
But most of us know it's not RTD, it's the union.
All these hateful, socialist & liberal practices are forced on and supported by the union.
The black cloud hovering over RTD, oppressing the employees and the customer is the union.
I love my job, I love the customer, I love RTD.
But I don't represent the union or those employees whose loyalties remain with the union and not RTD.
They hold the opposite opinion from me.
As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Know that your Driver loves you in spite of the union - Let's Roll!"
I've had a butt load of Drivers and other RTD employees gripped by the oppressive fists of the social regime known as ATU 1001 - I've had these folks approach me and tell me they plan to cross any strike line the union is going to force RTD employees to create.
In the last few months, we've had more and more training and even more recently we've heard ever increasing rumours of the pending strike to extort more money from the tax payer to support the extravagant lifestyles of the union leadership.
And in light of this threat, I've had folks come to me asking how we cross the extortion lines and continue to be faithful employees to our employer without suffering the fines and penalties the union slaps on those who oppose it.
There is a way and I'll make sure to spell it out step by step so that the other 90% of us can come to work without fear while the union throws its fit and goes on strike.
In the mean time, I've been reading up on the union and RTD and I found a post in Wiki that reads that the union only struck once before back in 2006 and it was for only 7 days.
A result of that strike was that the for-profit private companies grabbed an increased share of the routes from RTD, a grab that has grown to around 60% of the routes.
I can't find an exact number on that percentage but folks keep telling me that it's around 40% or less of the services that RTD operates, the rest are the companies that y'all complain about.
One more reason the unions are bad for the business, for the employee and for the customer.
As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Don't give into the socialist oppression - Let's Roll!"
So the Union is falling apart - finally.
As membership declines across the Nation, Veolia Transportation gets fed up with ATU 1001 and asks to leave the union.
All the members were asked to vote whether to allow Veolia to leave and I personally heard it echoed across the spectrum, "If they want out, why not let them go?"
Everybody I know voted to let them leave the union.
When we went into cast our votes, there were a couple of thugs sitting in from of the ballots and a box into which we dropped out ballots.
The ballot wasn't professional or objective as you'd expect any ballot to be, like a local, state or federal election is.
This was a biased, propaganda ridden slash loaded question type of ballot.
The question was whether to allow Veolia to leave the union but the way it was worded was, "yes, kick them out and let them fend for themselves" or words to that effect.
It was very hostile, very liberal and very hateful.
As was the air and manner of the thugs conducting the vote.
Oh well...I've not yet heard the results of our vote last Friday but I'm sure Veolia will be granted their freedom from the union oppression.
Now if only they would allow RTD employees to vote to be free of the ATU 1001...that would be a dream come true.
Not only for us but for all of Colorado and RTD customers.
As Always, "Welcome aboard, Find your seats, Vote for Freedom - Let's Roll!"
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