Hey Grant,I rode the train this afternoon-- it took 24 minutes to get from Target Field to TCF Bank Stadium in the middle of the day, with good weather and no traffic. The transit schedule says it should take 16 minutes.
Cut the Cheetah some slack. 8 minutes could mean the difference between hitting a connection, and waiting quite a while. In a city with frequent service throughout the system, this isn't a deal breaker. But those kinds of delays have stretched my commute 20-30 minutes longer here.
If that 16 minute travel time pans out, I may stop driving to work and take LRT for part of my commute. I'm hopeful!
My LRT tester reported today: It took 16 minutes 30 seconds to go from East bank to TFS this evening with departure time of 7:00pm. It was about 20 minutes this morning from TFS to East this morning at approximately 6:08am. Not sure why the difference over same distance. We start the timer when doors close.
Let's give them two weeks to try and improve things. I think it's perfectly ok to hold MT to those numbers, especially when they can't use traffic as an excuse. Like Mulad, I'm wondering why they installed the signals only a month before this thing opened. Not the first LRT line they have opened......