[/b]The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is hosting a public meeting to discuss the future of Route 49 – UNCC Green Line. CATS encourages passengers and community members to attend the public meeting to ask questions and to provide input on the future of Route 49 – UNCC Green Line.
Meeting location and date: University of North Carolina – Charlotte Campus
9201 University City Blvd.
Student Activity Center (SAC)
Charlotte, NC 28223
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
[quote=“cibik02, post:4, topic:25336”]was in chapel hill this past weekend for a wedding and saw a fire truck in baby blue zoom on by… how do we get Niner green fire trucks?
should we organize a spray painting event?[/quote]
Probably the only way something like that happens. No way in hell they show any patriotism for us.
We are in this city, but they sure don’t want us here.
[/b]The Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) is hosting a public meeting to discuss the future of Route 49 – UNCC Green Line. CATS encourages passengers and community members to attend the public meeting to ask questions and to provide input on the future of Route 49 – UNCC Green Line.
Meeting location and date: University of North Carolina – Charlotte Campus
9201 University City Blvd.
Student Activity Center (SAC)
Charlotte, NC 28223
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
[b]Drop in anytime between 12:00 and 1:30 p.m.
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Please clarify. Is this for the light rail, or is this the name of a bus route?
[quote=“Ninercentral, post:7, topic:25336”]I think this is for the bus. The light rail is still the blue line extension.[/quote]Route 49 is a bus line.
The rail line will remain the blue line.
For the bus line to be successful at the university, it needs to have limited stops to uptown to cut the trip to a half hour or less and it needs to run later at night. Also, make it free for Charlotte students.
[quote=“Niner National, post:8, topic:25336”][quote=“Ninercentral, post:7, topic:25336”]I think this is for the bus. The light rail is still the blue line extension.[/quote]Route 49 is a bus line.
The rail line will remain the blue line.
For the bus line to be successful at the university, it needs to have limited stops to uptown to cut the trip to a half hour or less and it needs to run later at night. Also, make it free for Charlotte students. [/quote]
State would pick up that tab?
whats the difference between this and the CATS bus that runs from the school to uptown? It stops every half mile but trip is still < 30 min usually.
[quote=“cibik02, post:9, topic:25336”][quote=“Niner National, post:8, topic:25336”][quote=“Ninercentral, post:7, topic:25336”]I think this is for the bus. The light rail is still the blue line extension.[/quote]Route 49 is a bus line.
The rail line will remain the blue line.
For the bus line to be successful at the university, it needs to have limited stops to uptown to cut the trip to a half hour or less and it needs to run later at night. Also, make it free for Charlotte students. [/quote]
State would pick up that tab?
whats the difference between this and the CATS bus that runs from the school to uptown? It stops every half mile but trip is still < 30 min usually.[/quote]The buses run to campus anyway and very few students even ride it. It wouldn’t cost the city any more to run the bus with CHarlotte students riding for free. Their revenue from paying riders would drop by no more than a few thousand a year.
[quote=“cibik02, post:11, topic:25336”]I guess I’m not understanding…
so there will be the normal CATS bus that nobody apparently rides and an added Green Line bus ?
Will both still exist? doesn’t make sense. maybe I should read the article, lol.[/quote]No, the 49 Route is the route that currently runs from uptown to campus.
They’re discussing future changes to the line.
Nobody on campus really rides the line currently. With a new campus uptown next fall, it would be nice if CATS would let Charlotte students ride for free between the two campuses.
Sorry to get everyone excited. I also thought it was the light rail at first.
If they could make an express bus that has 1 stop at the University and 2 or 3 stops uptown. That would be valuable. Granted it was 10 years ago, but when I took the bus from University to uptown, it took an hour with all the stops on Tryon.
At least they named the bus line Route 49 years ago. Not too optimistic the light rail will be called the green line, as CATS has already told us on several occasions. THOSE IDIOTS! :))
i wish we had a free transit system for students that went to downtown charlotte. hate to say it but chapel hill has a really good transit system, not to mention the P2P that will take your drunk butt back to your dorm.
for clarification i do still hate UNC with every living cell
[quote=“get_gold78, post:15, topic:25336”]i wish we had a free transit system for students that went to downtown charlotte. hate to say it but chapel hill has a really good transit system, not to mention the P2P that will take your drunk butt back to your dorm.
for clarification i do still hate UNC with every living cell[/quote]
Hate UNC, but loved going out on Franklin St. with my fiancee when she went there, and loved the P2P for taking me back to her apartment at 2:30 am.
[quote=“UNCCTF, post:16, topic:25336”][quote=“get_gold78, post:15, topic:25336”]i wish we had a free transit system for students that went to downtown charlotte. hate to say it but chapel hill has a really good transit system, not to mention the P2P that will take your drunk butt back to your dorm.
for clarification i do still hate UNC with every living cell[/quote]
Hate UNC, but loved going out on Franklin St. with my fiancee when she went there, and loved the P2P for taking me back to her apartment at 2:30 am.[/quote]
Ha ha. I too hate UNC, and I felt like such a traitor on Franklin St. but its a pretty cool set up…
I will give some credit to the bars/clubs of Uptown Charlotte for sending party buses to pick up and drop off students. I know they aren’t doing it to provide a service to the University, but it’s something.
They actually changed it to the Green Line???[/quote]
I was wondering the same thing. Last I heard, it was the blue line.[/quote]
…and it still is, as CATS told us when we campaigned in the past to get the line named the GREEN line. They’re sill IDIOTS![/quote]It’s one line, there is no reason to name the extension of the blue line the green line. If you had to exit the blue line train to board the train to the university it would make sense, but you don’t.
