This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.
Details emerge on the Metro RapidRide service to West Seattle.
It’s worth keeping in mind that the point of RapidRide is not necessarily to get people to and from downtown quickly. We have express buses for that. RapidRide is designed to work more like a subway, with potential starts and destinations all along the route. Sure, some stops will be more popular than others, but serving downtown commuters is not the primary goal, as I understand it.
All that said, I think Metro is probably being too conservative in evolving this service from its standard buses. Free Wi-Fi is cool and all, but there are more important things. For example, if the goal is really to move people between destination centers, why not eliminate the stops in between “stations”?
The point of the new color and naming schemes is to signal to people “this is not a bus.” Why not go further in that direction?
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