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How exactly to ride RTA?
I'm new to RTA and I've been looking at the online schedules. If I want to get to the CR, do I just catch a southbound bus anywhere and it'll take me there? For example, I live in Arcata. If I want to be at the CR by 1:00, do I just look at the southbound bus schedule and see which bus arrives closest to that time and then see what time the bus leaves from say the HSU library? Maybe that doesn't make sense...It can't be that hard though. Help!
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Inappropriate?You got it. Our bus system is really simple - there is one route, and on the schedule each column shows where a particular bus will go. So if you look at the Southbound schedule, you'll see a bus that arrives at CR at 12:54pm. It's bus #22 - and if you look all along that column, you can see that it starts at Valley West (because there aren't any times above that location). It skips Manila (because there's no time for that location). And it doesn't go any further than CR because that's the last time in that column.
The whole schedule is a bit overwhelming to look at, but as long as you can find the time and place of arrival, and trace it back to the place you're leaving from, you should get there. All Southbound buses stop at CR on weekdays, so it's pretty simple.
You can also click on "Daily Timetables for stop locations" from the RTA homepage and plug in your most frequent locations. It gives you a list of all the times during a day that the bus comes by that stop. It's good to print out and have near the door so you can reference it when trying to plan when to leave home to catch a bus.
If you ride the bus a lot, you'll probably end up memorizing a lot of the schedule after a while - there aren't that many buses and your class schedule will probably narrow your choices to a few "favorite" buses anyway. Hope this helps =)
