Also, I'm still hopeful that they'll come up with a branch or a local shuttle or something that would provide a connection to the Green Line Penn Ave Station, rather than forcing everyone to go as far as Royalston.

But there's an on-ramp to I-394 heading into downtown literally right at the station.Regarding whether this line should link up with SWLRT at Penn or at Royalston, my feeling is that many more riders will be heading to downtown than will be transferring to SWLRT. So it makes more sense to slightly inconvenience the few than the many.
No, the bad lane is the right-hand lane of the mainline, which is the single lane to 94 east. This creates spillover congestion into the middle mainline lane, but it would be relatively easy for the bus to cut across to one of the left two lanes to get into downtown (I've never seen congestion into downtown, past the split to 94) or it could easily take the aux lane to exit at Dunwoody.Is congestion into down really that bad? I've never experienced it but then again it's not my normal commute. IME the congestion from 394 to 94 east is way worse.
This happens regularly on the 535, traveling north on 35W from the center at 46th Street to the shoulder at Lake Street, and then back to the center again as the bus heads into downtown. It's not ideal, but certainly not a deal breaker. Also, as has been mentioned several times now, the bus could simply stay in the auxiliary lane from Penn Ave's onramp to Dunwoody Blvd and travel into downtown that way.The problem is, it is very dangerous to cross over from the entrance off Penn, to get to the left lane. Those lanes of traffic are always moving at different speeds. And a bus cannot speed up quick enough. This would just cause a train reaction of break lights slowing down this already horrible stretch.
Agreed, but funds were limited. As it is the Van White bridge is only half of what was promised. The city has yet to deliver another span.I suppose this points out an issue wit the whole Van White Boulevard project -- it's pretty weird for Van White / Dunwoody / Hennepin to nearly loop back around on themselves as they do -- it probably would have made more sense for the new crossing of the tracks to have aimed northwest/southeast along the northern edge of the Bryn Mawr Meadows park and connected into Morgan Ave or maybe Laurel Ave. It still would have been possible to have a straight north-south connection thorough there as well, using two short bridges to cross tracks as they diverge more, rather than one long bridge to cross them so close to the split point. Oh well, maybe the topography just wouldn't work for that or something.
I could really dig this if the 19 were also routed to Penn station.Seems more practical for the bus to be Penn -> Glenwood -> Van White/Dunwoody, going past the Van White station rather than Penn.
That's a fair point. Let's hope we get there sooner rather than later!To be fair, does the second span really matter until traffic demand warrants it? Wasn't the purpose to improve connectivity?
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