Saturday, July 9, 2011

New DART Schedules for July 17 Available

Yesterday DART sent out an announcement reminding riders of the long-delayed Service Change that will happen on July 17. That's a week from Sunday. As we already know, the Wilmington transit hub will remain at Rodney Square. There are only 3 significant changes:

  • Route 16 - route path into downtown Wilmington will change, traveling up Walnut St., 8th St., French St., 10th St. to Rodney Square continuing to West St., 12th St., ending on Delaware Ave. at Adams St. The out of town path will come from Delaware Ave. serving the stop on 11th St. side of Rodney Square instead of the King St. side. Stops on Orange St. will no longer be served by this route.
  • Route 24 - new trip will be added leaving Kynlyn Drive at 6:28 a.m., arriving Rodney Square at 6:52 a.m.
  • ***Route 25 - NEW SERVICE EXTENSION - The 1 year pilot service, made available through the DNREC Community Environmental Project Fund, will travel along DE 9 to Clinton Street to Canal Road ending at the existing parking area located on Washington Street. On the return, service will include Washington Street to DE 9 to the Tybouts Corner Park & Ride, then resumes its currently operated service to Wilmington. Service operates from 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Friday.***

Other changes include:

  • Routes originally proposed for switching to Shipley Street (mostly those that load on King Street), now remaining at Rodney Square, will have minor time changes to reduce the number of buses at Rodney Square at one time.
  • Minor time adjustments to Route 55 between Glasgow and Newark to improve on-time performance.

The new schedules are now available online here in pdf format. DART's announcement says that printed schedules will be available on buses. I did not see any yesterday, but if we're lucky we'll see some by next week.

An updated Excel spreadsheet that includes all bus route schedules in available here. This is a large spreadsheet, not phone-friendly. Wouldn't it be nice if, some day, DART would provide route schedules that could easily be pulled up and read on people's smartphones?

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