AATA Service to DTW on Feb. 16 Agenda
A proposal long in the works to provide public transportation service between Ann Arbor and Detroit Metropolitan Airport will appear on the agenda of the Ann Arbor Transportation Authority board at its Feb. 16 meeting. The AATA will contract out the service through Indian Trails (Michigan Flyer).
Details of the service include a one-way fare of $12 for advance reservation (and limited refundability) or $15 with re-fundability up to time of departure. Round trip fare would be $22 for advance reservation (and limited refundability) or $30 with refundability up to time of departure. The resolution also provides for an introductory promotional offer of $10 one-way and $20 round trip. Volume discounts also may be available for groups of up to eight people traveling together. [.pdf of resolution establishing fare structure]
AATA CEO Michael Ford has previously described the intent of the service to provide 12 daily trips each way, with a very limited number of stops, in order to achieve a trip time of around 40-45 minutes.
The board previously authorized the negotiation of the contract with Indian Trails. A resolution separate from the one setting fares establishes a two-year contract with Indian Trails at a cost of $2.56 per service mile, with the total cost for the contract not more than $700,000 per year.
Including stops, the AATA has previously described an airport route as long as 70 miles round trip. [On I-94, it's roughly 51 roundtrtip miles from downtown Ann Arbor to the entrance of Detroit Metro.] At the lower end of the regular fare offered on a 70-mile round trip, the service would need to average around eight passengers per bus to cover the cost of the Indian Trails contract on fares alone. [(70*2.56)/22 = 8.14] [.pdf of board information packet]
The Feb. 16 AATA board meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. in the fourth-floor boardroom of the downtown Ann Arbor District Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave.
umm . . .
are there some captions missing?
yeah, umm…
explanation, please?
I was going to try a wild story line involving snorkels or flutes and realizing he was trying for an authentic war re-enactment photo without pants (realizing with later shame) with a photographer who also runs a coin shop but even with my wildest imagination this cartoon makes no sense. And my greatest fear is that maybe it actually does make sense to someone. Or is that the point?
I think we’ve been BEZONKED!
I think the question marks coming out of the vase in the last panel say it all.
And as always, the colors are lovely.
It is usually more fun to read Bezonki from bottom panel to top.
It’s about the state of confusion that arises from desires.
Or maybe Alvey created it during Hash Bash.
perhaps there is a series of bezonki strips drawn horizontally, but someone accidentally cut them vertically.
A person could get a taste of this by looking at the Bezonki archive page, which shows the first panels of recent strips: http://annarborchronicle.com/tag/bezonki/
Bottom up, top down; as Peter Honeyman remarked about another Bezonki strip:
ʇı ʇǝƃ ʇ,uop ı
Wait, I’m *supposed* to get Bezonki?
I think it is a discussion about “what is art”?
Knick-knacks
crafts
photography
collectibles
literature/books
vase
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
“Sunday funnies”? I guess the artist is the only one laughing at the rest of us for trying to figure out what he’s saying. Maybe it makes him feel good by making us feel dumb.
Bezonki gets a call from a friend who just made a lot of money in some kind of scam. Bezonki gets the idea to create a forgery of a Civil-War-era stamp and try to get some money for it. He then sits and contemplates the ethics of his decision by staring at the urn containing the ashes of a revered relative.
I think we have a winner, folks. Congrats, Joan.
I think the urn is destroying the evidence.
I love the picture of the rog…I mean frog.
Joan, you inspired me:
Bezonki, recently released from prison for beating up short purple hairy men, uses the cell phone he was given by the Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative to call his aunt, whom he entrusted to keep his chest of treasures while incarcerated. There he keeps the gun and outfit he uses for his Civil War reenactment group. He finds a coupon for a local photo studio, but gets frustrated cutting it out because his scissors are dull. Undaunted, he goes to the studio and gets his picture taken. The photographer also owns a stamp and coin shop, and notices that the buttons on Bezonki’s uniform are actually rare and valuable Civil War-era coins. However, he tells the gullible Bezonki that they are mere trinkets, pulling out a fake catalogue to make his point. Bezonki sells the buttons/coins for a pittance, then returns home and pulls out his own coin catalogue, only to discover he’s been duped. Crap! He’s so upset that he fails to realize the TV he’s watching is actually a lamp and a vase.
What vapors are wafting from the vase? Stay tuned.
If you think his cartoons are difficult, you should try reading his books!
Doiky Doiky
Just be yourself.
“finds a coupon for a local photo studio”, naturally printed out from the Chroncle of course….
He’s short on money and doing everything he can to get by.
1. Drops landline for cell only
2. Gathers old junk to sell on eBay.
3. Clipping coupones for groceries.
4. Signs up with army for recruitment bonus.
5. Goes to pawn shop to sell family heirlooms
6. Says goodbye to favorite books before they go on Craigslist.
7. Sad that he has only one thing left of value
8. That thing is his TV, which he sold and now has nothing left to do at home.
Hmmm. To Bezonki or not to Bezonki. That is the Fernblad.