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Article: Storm-stricken bus service in New Orleans limits transit options
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- New Orleans CityBusiness
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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One recent Monday morning, three strangers stood together at
Napoleon and St. Charles avenues, waiting to catch the bus. Ten
minutes would pass, then 20, in which time multiple streetcars had
rumbled by.
Thirty minutes after its scheduled arrival, the Broad Street bus
finally appeared, swallowing the work-bound trio into its air-
conditioned belly and heading along Napoleon toward Canal Street.
"Some days, you really don't know when it's gonna come," George
Jacobs, 28, said of the bus, which he catches three or four times a
week to get to his security guard job at a Canal Street bank. It
isn't always late, he said, calling the half-hour lag that morning a
"once-in-a-while irregularity."
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