Another Letter to the Editor at The Advocate

Reader's Views: Early bus could miss on-time riders

December 05, 2011

In Sunday’s People section, Nov. 27, Slater McKay, Forum 35 outgoing president, thought it “weird” a bus driver would stop “because she was ahead of schedule.”

I would hope Advocate writer Ed Cullen, who interviewed McKay and who is knowledgeable about such things, explained that buses have schedules just the same as airplanes and trains.
McKay would not want to get to the airport for his 8:30 flight to find it had left “ahead of schedule” at 7:30.

James R. Madden
information technology consultant
Baton Rouge


Comments (3)

1) Comment by phil - Monday, December 05, 2011

Gee, if someone goes to a bus stop on time and the bus has gotten there early and has already left, then that person will miss the bus. This seems to me to be a simple concept, and I am not worried one way or the other about it here too much. What I am worried about is spending $millions every year on a bus system that nobody can afford. For me CATS = Can't Afford To Support when you start talking about build-it-and-they-will- come economics.

2) Comment by tradewinns - Sunday, December 04, 2011

there is a schedule for a reason. elderly man, you must be important individual for them to hold a plane for you. i understood the only time an airplane could leave early was if ALL ticketed passengers were seated.

3) Comment by Elderly Man - Saturday, December 03, 2011

I get to the airport early to avoid feeling rushed. I have gotten to the airport so early that the airlines have rushed me onto an earlier flight. Once they even held the plane for me (here in Baton Rouge). Once on a return from a trip to France, I made an earlier connection and then waited five hours in Atlanta my destination for someone to met me at the time originally set.

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LSU Student Basketball Band in the '70s

Smiley Anders for Dec. 1, 2011

Musical interlude

James R. Madden responds to a question about the name of the student band at long-ago LSU basketball games:

“In the mid-’70s, I played banjo with the informal LSU basketball band in the Assembly Center.

“I recall the group’s name being ‘The Court Jesters.’

“We were invited to participate in a Mardi Gras truck parade one year; it might have been in Algiers.”

(One word tells you all you need to know about this band: “banjo.”)

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