Slightly less reliable than walking

Did you see RTA released a new app this month? It is very helpful for letting riders who have smartphones guess how long they might have to wait on the next bus.  It doesn't actually make the buses come any sooner, of course, but hey information is power, right?

To take an RTA bus from Hollygrove to her old restaurant job in the Warehouse District, Amanda Soprano used to leave home an hour and a half before the start of her shift.

Between a Tulane Avenue bus she says is chronically late in the afternoons and a streetcar transfer, Soprano often encountered delays that would make her late for work; a fact that grated on her, knowing she could have driven to Biloxi, Mississippi in the same amount of time it took to go downtown on public transit.

Leaving work, she’d face a long bus ride home or an expensive Uber trip. She’s known dishwashers and cooks who spent the night on Canal Street after working late and missing their buses home

It's an hour and a half to get downtown from Hollygrove if everything is working normally.  RTA doesn't tell you this part but there is another app in your phone that estimates how long it takes a person to walk that distance. Let's pick a random spot in Hollygrove and see what that says.

Wow that really is valuable information.  I know you're thinking what about a bike but you don't want to risk getting a thousand dollar ticket. Invest in a decent pair of shoes and you're all set.