Public transit: Vans better than empty buses
Re: “Pierce Transit limiting number of bus passengers to 15 during COVID-19,” (TNT, 4/15).
So the transit agency will now only allow 15 riders on a 40-passenger bus around town. That is a good joke.
Not only do their buses run mostly empty all day long during normal times, but during this quarantine, you’d be lucky to find that many riders on a single route.
I’d like to see far fewer large buses running empty and trade them in for vans, which would make more sense from both an economic and ecological standpoint.
Costi Mahshi, Tacoma
This story was originally published April 28, 2020 at 9:12 AM with the headline "Public transit: Vans better than empty buses."