From the Journal Gazette’s Letters to the Editor.
Take bus; save gasoline and the environment
Clean Air Force is a campaign in Fort Wayne to make the environment better. Buses with the “Clean Air Force” signs run on a biodiesel fuel that is a 20 percent soybean blends, which is cleaner for the environment.
On days that are deemed unsafe for the general public because of air pollution, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management calls for an Ozone Action Day. When this happens, Citilink will help keep pollutants out of the air by giving everyone free rides all day.
Courtney, have you ever ridden on a Citilink bus? I’d have to wear a hazmat suit before I’d get on one of them. Not that they’re dirty but some of the patrons I’ve seen getting on them could use a few trips through Mike’s Car Wash.
If we have alternative transportation available, why don’t we use it, especially with high gas prices?
I’d ride a bike before I got on a bus in Fort Wayne.
If 30 people who would normally pay $50 for a week’s worth of gasoline take the bus one week out of the month, then that is $1,500 that the oil companies don’t get that month.
Normally pay $50 a week? At $2.74 per gallon (that’s what I paid yesterday) $50 would get you 18 gallons. Multiply that times say 20 MPG and it’s 360 miles. Who drives 360 miles per week to get back and forth to work in Fort Wayne?
So this is about keeping the big bad oil companies from getting your money? They only averaged a return of 8-9%.
Everyone should take a week out of the month and ride the bus. It will save money and gasoline and help out the bus company so that the bus might be able run for longer hours and possibly on Sundays.
COURTNEY FINNEY- Huntington
Does Citilink serve Huntington now? The fact is, Citilink doesn’t service all of Fort Wayne. I’ve been in Fort Wayne for over a year now (since annexed) and I’d have to walk close to a mile to catch the bus. None of Illinois Road in Aboite is serviced
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I’d love to take the bus–hazmat suit or not–if I could get to it without walking halfway to work.
Actually, I just looked at the maps. If I walked about a mile and a half, I could pick it up at Lutheran Hospital, and then I’d have to change buses somewhere before getting to work. It’s a five mile/10 minute drive.
I could ride my bike, too, but that would require using either or both of Jefferson Blvd and Illinois Rd–neither of which are terribly bike-friendly.
And we thought the floor of a MOVIE THEATER was BAD….take a look at those passengers.
Think of it as a MOBILE shelter for the homeless!
((wonder how many SEX OFFENDERS give Citilink’s terminal as their address?))
As to the MILEAGE thing…if you’re dropping off DRUGS here, you could EASILY do 360 miles “going to work”…
(just ask the prosecutor’s office)
ROFLMAO!
B.G.
AWB - I am thankful the bus doesn’t come out to my area…. AMF