Tuesday, September 13, 2011

email to Vegas bus company after 9-11


Please be careful to research the details of your answers.  I will be sharing them with discussion boards, with the press, and with AARP.

My concern is exactly how the RTC affects senior tourists.

In particular:
1. Which reduced fares are no longer accepted on the Deuce, SDX.  The website says the 30 day pass is still all access. Information on your Facebook site recommended I buy the 5 day pass and use it with no ID requred, and anecdotal traveler data suggest that the 5 day pass is all access and recommended tourists use that pass and no ID would be required. Did that change yesterday?
2. How does a tourist get from the airport on the WAX and then down the strip?  Is s/he required to buy two passes?  Will the WAX bus driver sell a 24 hour pass that is not residential only and good on the SDX as well?
3..  Since these changes apply only to tourist travelers, what can you say about the RTC intention to create two classes of senior riders, locals and tourists?  Since stimulus funds are being used to overhaul the Las Vegas bus company, how is it fair to charge out of state users twice the price of locals? How does it promote the use of the buses by tourists?
4.  What route would you suggest for the tourist who will now ride the buses from downtown, but want to ride on a residential pass? What would be the safest bus stops at 1 am in the morning?

Any other light you might throw on this issue would certainly be helpful as I inform my readers and others of these new changes and their affect on trourist seniors.

Thanks

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