Of course what ISN'T mentioned is the fact that one cannot use a bus to get from Tualatin to Sherwood (despite a very busy road connecting the two cities), or that one cannot use a bus to get from the various residential neighborhoods on the northern part of Tualatin along the Tualatin River, or the area east of I-205 (except for the little leg of the 76 that runs from Mohawk P&R to Meridian Park Hospital)...or that the neighborhoods in the south of Tualatin have just the rush hour 96 bus (and only every other bus at that)...
Or that on Saturdays, the 76 bus only runs every 35-40 minutes until 9:30 PM or so leaving no late night service, or on Sundays and holidays that the last bus leaves Tualatin at around 6:30 PM. And that the majority of these buses are good ol' 1700s and 1800s.
But, hey, Tualatin has WES! That solves EVERYTHING. (Except on weekends, and holidays, and during the middle of the day, and late at night...and of course WES doesn't go to Bridgeport Village, or Sherwood, or Lake Grove, or Portland, or the Target and Costco in Wilsonville. Nor is there any bus service to/from the WES station to serve the various residential and employment centers in Tualatin so you're stuck using the park-and-ride to get to WES and have no hope of getting to work from WES...)
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They're too busy harassing us operators to be worried about actually transporting people places where they need to go.
But WES announces its stops automatically, including the "Mind the Gap" announcements! Therefore WES MUST be better than buses!
I blew it Erik, I shoulda gone as a light rail operator or WES conductor, none of these trivial problems for them, just the lowly bus drivers.
If you were a WES Conductor you wouldn't even have to worry about not having any break time, because for every 90 minutes of work you'd do, you'd be sitting at either Beaverton or Wilsonville for 36 of those minutes. And you'd still have a couple minutes at Tigard each way to chat with the Conductor of the train going the other way.
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