[UPDATE:] The proposal.
What would it take to build our own bus ETA notification and Internet hotspot system?
Twenty-four hours into blogging about the NextBus system, what have we learned? What’s the alternative? How large of an opportunity have we missed?
What have other folk said about NextBus?
Why is the town concerned about cellphone charges? What kind of deal did we make?
Alameda California’s ACTransit signed a deal with NextBus is January, 2006. Did we get as good a deal?
May 8th I had an opportunity to speak with one of the folk from ACTransit who negotiated their great deal.
ACTransit got for their $1M:
- NEW: 54 signs, 125 vehicles, 13 routes
- EXISTING: 46 signs, 74 vehicles, 12 routes
- 7 years of support for their existing and new infrastructure.
Chapel Hill?
- 14 signs, 83 vehicles, 26 routes, unknown warrantee.
What does the Daily Tar Heel have to say?
Why NextBus? What about the strange coincidence involving NextBus’ 2002 campaign contributions to Rep. Price?
[ UPDATE: ]
Bob Avery, the town’s IT director, came through this evening with additional documentation of the Real-Time Passenger Information System and Automatic Vehicle Location system for Chapel Hill Transit.