Brett, I'm going to try to post this on the blog (I'm still having no luck
with that, maybe it's because I'm on a Macintosh), but I wanted to let you
know that the #2 Jitney has not made its morning runs for two days in a row
now. Apparently the driver told one of our riders that the vehicle has been
having door problems, and he had to have it repaired yesterday, but somehow
it made the evening runs from S. Orange station. This morning it did not
show up again, and about eight or 10 people walked down Walker Road to South
Valley and waited for the jitney that stops there. The driver on that route
refused to even open the door at first, because she already had people
standing in the aisles and didn't think it was safe to operate with so many
more people on board. One rider blew a total fit in front of the jitney, and
as several of us began the hike to South Orange, the driver finally did open
the doors and let about four people on. The rest of us walked, and we were
all late for work this morning, as well as tired, overheated and angry.
This is not acceptable. We need to have a back-up system so that if a jitney
isn't going to come, we either have an alternative that will pick us up or
some kind of early notification that we have to find our own way to the
station. The hot line this morning was still talking about the problems on
the evening of Jan. 3, and said nothing about what's been happening with
Route #2 this week.