RAILforum: More Pandemonium in the Amtrak Circus from San Luis Obispo and Cal Poly (SLP)

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Posted by fubu05 (Member # 465) on :

The incredibly stylish Amtrak Circus seems to get more amazing by the day and by the place it takes place.

This episode took place at several locations in San Luis Obispo.

1. An unidentified flying roadway condition sign blew from one side of the freeway to the other between California Blvd. and Toro Street (detour for Foothill), nearly hitting three San Luis Obispo Transit buses, one Amtrak Bus, and a Greyhound 5600 series coach this morning.

2. Shortly later, a bad three car accident occurred at Oak and Santa Rosa St., causing traffic to back up all the way to Leff St. westbound on Santa Rosa. For those unfamiliar, Leff is the next block to the west of the SLO station.

3. Monterey St. between Toro and Johnson Avenue is closed to traffic, and this is the normal SLO-SLP access route for thruway buses to get to the college.

4. Yesterday morning, buses 4913 and 6234 lost about 35 minutes in a bad traffic backlog on Grand which was backed up from Slack Street (main entrance to Poly) all the way back under the freeway to Wilson Rd. (first intersection east of freeway). Santa Rosa backed up to Marsh one way and clear past CMC in the other, Highland St. backed up from Poly to Coast Highway, Foothill Blvd. backed up all the way back to Patricia St., and California Blvd. backed up from Oak St. (just east of Freeway) to the west entrance of the University. All SLO Transit buses yesterday for a time were running about 35 minutes late due to traffic problems.

5. Today, the bus route #4 had a bus swap in downtown SLO, and then hd mechanical failure two stops before Laguna Lake Park on Madonna Road, only after being 30 minutes late (on this ridiculous 33 minute headway that they run.) The next bus (only 3 minutes behind) overtook the disabled bus at Madonna & Los Osos Valley Road and the two buses (once the first bus (SLOT #140, a 40 foot Gillig Phantom II), and #150 (a 35 foot Gillig Phantom II) played tag with each other in San Luis Obispo for hours before the #140 coach came back into sync.

And then, ofcourse, there was 4784 who also had to pass through this mess.

O, for the love of San Luis Obispan Circus Acts, as we have "HIGH GUERRA" on Higuera once again, this time the right side of the roadway and all on-street curb-side parking is eliminated from Santa Rosa to Osos. I don't quite know what is going on there, but I thought they had that project done last December, why do we have the Tonka Toys out htere again, doing what they do best, ripping things up?

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Mark Landau

Posted by cajon (Member # 40) on :

Peter - why do you insist on talking about buses on railroad boards? You've been asked
to leave 2 others. Don't think anyone here cares. Aren't there any BUS news groups?

Posted by Ken Ruben (Member # 656) on :

Cajon, you recognized Peter Warner right away like I did.

His post similar to the above post was deleted from Altamont Press (http://railroadnews.net)-off topic and yes,there are bus (and rail) transit groups all over the place including Southern California Transit Advocates (closed membership board posting with posts to the newsgroup la.transportation) and a LACMTA Group on Yahoo.

If you or anyone else has any further questions, I can supply further details.

---"Ken" Ruben---