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Comments received regarding weekday service reductions 1 Need earlier train for my commute The first train Northbound in the AM is too late and the last train Southbound in the PM is too early. REALLY??? Now I can't ride this train at ALL!!! I would be arriving 2 hour late to my office and leaving 2 hours early! Think people, think!!! Most folks work 8 hours a day, not 5 or 6! Keep the service the way it was. Otherwise, SMART will be ANOTHER USELESS EXPENSIVE public system, just like the GGBus and the rest of the bureaucratic inept transportation systems in the Bay Area. If you cut the weekday trips and I can't ride your train, my family, friends, and I will boycott and vote against every measure and every opportunity to give you money! Need earlier northbound trains, and later southbound trains The earliest southbound train does not get me to work on time by 2min. If this did not change I would not take the smart train. It is absolutely imperative to run the early morning (departing Larkspur at 6:38 am) train in order for me to be able to use the train for my daily commute. I do not understand why you would eliminate this most important time while leaving both a 9:30 and a 10 am train. Commuters who are commuting north for work that would take a 10 am train can easily take a 9:30 train instead, and just be a little early. For those of us needing the early morning train, there is no alternative that works. Without this train I cannot use the train at all to commute. I implore you to include the early morning train in your plan and sacrifice a late morning train in its stead. I plead with you with the utmost urgency to consider keeping the 6:38 am Northbound train in lieu of a later morning train that does not serve nearly as many people each day. Getting rid of the early morning trains prevents commuters from getting to work on time and students to get to schools by 8am. PLEASE do not eliminate the morning trains that get from Marin to Santa Rosa in time for 8am school start. Also, having the last train leave Santa Rosa before 5pm is crazy. A commuter from Marin to Santa Rosa cannot even get an 8 hour workday in with this schedule and if commuters and students aren't taking the train, who is? The northbound morning commute proposal is too late. You need to make sure people can get to Santa Rosa by 8am for school or work start times. If this doesn't happen you will lose a lot of riders and increase traffic on the roads. Same for the afternoon commute... it seems like later times would have Need an earlier service on weekdays. 4:30am dept. The southbound schedule's earliest time would make it impossible to go for lunch in the City. I would not be able to use the train for my daily work commute if the the proposed AM northbound schedule was approved. I would have to drive, which I don’t want to do. I love the smart train and I love your current early morning northbound schedule. Comments received regarding weekday service reductions 2 Are you serious???? This is supposed to be a commuter train. Not sure what world you all live in but most people start work between 6:00 am and 9:00 am. Your first southbound train should leave Sonoma County Airport by 5:00 am absolutely no later then that. Get rid of the 8:28 am and 12:45 pm southbound trains, again its a commuter train most people work at least 6 hours per day. As for your northbound schedule get rid of the 10:04 am out of Larkspur again no commuter would be on that train. Add a 3:00 pm northbound out of Larskpur. Am southbound trains must start earlier for my commute. That schedule, North South AM PM, is useless. If someone plans on riding the train for the sake of riding the train then it is fine. But look at that schedule and plan a roundtrip to accomplish anything, like work or shopping or going to SF, and you will see it is not possible to create a travel plan. The proposed southbound schedule would make the train unusable for people that need to be to work Please keep an early train northbound for 7 am departing San Rafael. I commute all the way to Santa Rosa and the traffic in Santa Rosa to the airport is horrible Need earlier am southbound. Take 530am downtown train Would like an earlier AM northbound train (7:30 am?) When I ride the train on the week days I usually ride early am like around 5 to 5:30 am in Petaluma going south to Marin county to get me to work by 7am. Going home I usually catch the train in larkspur around 3:15 to 3:30 pm to get me to my destination in Petaluma before 4:30 pm . By Changing the train schedule would only hurt my commute time schedule then I would have to catch the golden gate transit instead of the train. That's why we got the smart train. Smart train will be throwing their money in the garbage. I thought the train is for our transportation in our community to get to point A to point B and to help the traffic problem. If this schedule is implemented, SMART becomes an an agency that does nothing well. Instead, retain the the 5:09 am southbound, don't bother with midday service. In this way you serve commuters well and aknowledge that at this time leisure riders and shift workers are not folks you can serve. needs to be something earlier than 6:20 AM departure for southbound and might be nice to have a later northbound evening option, but not as important as the early morning southbound I would need an earlier train going southbound in the morning. Half an hour earlier would be great. If I was commuting to my old job in Rohnert Park, I would need to leave earlier from county airport to be able to walk or catch a bus to my place of work. This schedule would make me very late for work. I would need an option that gets me from Novato to I need to be in Larkspur by 6:30am. I take the train to work and need to be at work by 7:30. AM northbound needs to have an earlier option for those starting work at 7 am. The proposed schedule doe not even have an option for people starting work in santa rosa by 9am. PM northbound trip needs an option for those leaving work at 6 pm Right now there is not even an option for those leaving work in Santa Rosa at 5pm. This schedule is obviously focused on the morning southbound and evening northbound commute but needs to show more options for the other commute (morning northbound and evening southbound). Comments received regarding weekday service reductions 3 elimination of the early morning northbound trains would make commuting to santa rosa for work very difficult for me. additionally, eliminating the northbound trains between 3:03 and 4:49 will make it difficult for kids that get out of school in Petaluma to commute home or to after school 6:20 a.m. for the first train is too late. The first train would need to leave by 5:30 a.m. otherwise I'm getting to the office too late and would drive my car. Maybe cutting a later p.m. train would affect less The change in morning times would mean I would never take the train. I need to be at work by 730 at the Sonoma County Airport. AM northbound eliminates commute since most people have to be to work before 8am. PM southbond eliminates commute since most people have to work until 5pm or later. PM northbound cold work, but it's be better to have a gap in service and one later train during summer or maybe limited to Friday nights only. Southbound hours too late for work commuting The northbound and southbound trips during work hours would help no one. If those are going to be the times, then the north should start earlier, so people can get to work in SR before 8 AM. People are normally off of work at 5 PM- southbound should be after 5 PM. If this becomes the new running schedule then I will not be able to use the SMART train for work commute since I work 7am-5:30pm M-Th. earlier northbound to airport area is important. there are a number of people i have talked to about taking the train and they cannot because it is not early enough northbound. I report to work at 7am so the later arrival time does not work for me. Good start for reduction in fees. Wow. This is truly absurd. I'm almost speechless. How to articulate The proposed schedule has the first "commuter" trains picking up from Petaluma after 8 a.m., and arriving in downtown Santa Rosa after 9 a.m. Your afternoon schedule has the last train leaving Santa Rosa before 5. I know I'm not the only person who works an 8-5 schedule. You're proposing a "commuter" train that does not run during commuting hours.