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e they assuming that almost all employees will drive to work right next to a mass transit stop?

Well, a few things. Maintenence yards often have a lot of employee parking because
a) transit isn't running when a lot of heavy LRT maintenence gets done (nighttime or non-peak hours). And there is transit service, but it's often running at very infreuqent headways and with no timed transfers. Very difficult for an operator who may need to get in a 4am to get a LRV out of the yard on time to take transit.

b)a lot of the employees - blue collar ones that work in the yard/etc are not going to be able to live anywhere near the Purple Line - a lot of maintenence workers (working class white ones, in particular) live in Calvert, Anne Arundel, etcetera. Asking them to relocate or hiring new ones is pretty unreasonable.

This is less of an issue for bus operators - where the potential employee pool is often larger - but much more of an issue for light rail - where the labor pool is likely to be much more dispersed. THis is especially true since a lot of the light rail operators may get drawn from area LRT system (ie, Baltimore's), and would be commuting a long distance anyways.

by AA on Sep 21, 2011 9:54 pm • link • report

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