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 The RTC will be operating using its reduced, Saturday service schedule, starting last Monday and continuing until... who knows? This means that, while users in the core transit-served areas of the Valley will notice only mild reductions in frequency, riders on routes on the edges of the service area will see some pretty drastic cuts. Take, for example, the 121 Durango/Buffalo, running through the western suburbs: the weekday schedule has it as a standard half-hourly route, but on Saturdays it only runs hourly. If that's the bus you rely on, it's a significant cut, and it'll mean that it's that much harder for me to get to one of my doctors, just as an example. Why would the agency do this? Well, the same reason everything sucks in the world today, and the same reason I haven't posted in over two years: the coronavirus. Logistics companies are desperately trying to move all the stuff we've been ordering while we've been in lockdown, through a pandemic-strick...

Title basically. If you've visited Las Vegas, you probably know about the Deuce, the charming double-deckers that slowly wend their way from casino to casino along the Strip, and you might know about the SDX, which does what the Deuce does but faster (and in its own lane-- after it leaves the area with the heaviest traffic congestion). I strongly doubt you know about the Boulder Highway Express and Sahara Express, two rapid routes with signal priority, level boarding, and dedicated lanes, and I guarantee you don't know that similar features are present on routes 202 Flamingo and 113 N. Vegas as well. Huge swathes of the Las Vegas Valley are served by frequent, reliable busways, but it's hard to know that without actually riding the system. As the ever-excellent Human Transit points out , right-of-way and stop spacing are the two most important factors for reliable transit. Five routes in the Las Vegas Valley have Class B rights-of-way, dedicated lanes just for buses and...