TARTA Woes

I've found TARTA to be pretty user friendly - I use the Call-a-Ride system.

If you are in Oregon you won't have a line close to you because Oregon is not a part of TARTA. From some Blade articles a while back, I think your mayor discussed joining the system. Give Marge Brown a call and let her know that you want bus service. If enough people request it, they may join.

Sorry about your car, I hope things get better for you soon.

the price is super reasonable
i lived in chicago in 1995-1997 and a month long transit pass was 80$

$40 doesnt even equal weekly gas payments for most people

if you have problems with their website id consider sending them an email. we are a smaller market, and they may not be used to users like yourself that have had a taste of bigger markets/cities

I have no comments on the TARTA stuff, but if you need a lawyer you might look into the University of Toledo's legal clinic. I believe that, if you qualify, you can receive free legal services. If not free, they are significantly reduced.

If Toledo wanted to seriously look into a restructuring of TARTA to make it more friendly to the city it'd have to look no further than to Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti.

The bus lines there are the best I've seen of any big or small city.

I had to ride standing up. Found that my bad shoulders gave me a hard time holding onto the horizontal overhead bar. I ended up using the vertical bar, and trying to keep from being pitched all over as I rode "Toledo's fun ride" from South and Broadway, to the "lineup". But we need alternative transportation, and this works for me.

Whats wrong with your car, if you dont mind me asking? Whats going on with chrysler screwing you over?

I live off Dorr st., so I try to take the #5 into town a couple times a week. I know the route I need so I just go to the website and click on the #5 Route for the times and I am good to go.

tm2: it's kind of a long story. To sum it up Car is under warranty, garage wants to charge me $600 extra out of pocket claiming the warranty inspector needs the engine out of it before he can assess if it's under warranty (which is it). The Insurance company even if they do claim it's under warranty will more than likely give me a check for the book value of the car, since it's less than the cost of an engine to fix it. If they "total" the car, I'll get a check for $4700 (and still have to pay $700 just for them to look at it), then since the car is totalled, the bank will demand I pay back the remaining balance.

So... they can give me the $4700 and I'm stuck w/o a car and still owe about $6k left on it, and will be stuck for the next 3 years paying on nothing, or the bank reams me for the $6k now and will go after my father since he cosigned and he doesnt have that kind of money either.

So right now, I'm basically going to pay the $100 deductible, then $75 to have it towed back to my place and have it parked. Pay if off over the next couple of years and buy some KY. Because that's better than having the bank go after my father.

To add to this it's causing friction at work since I rely on my girlfriend to for a lift and she works random hours, haven't really slept in 2 -3 days, and I'm not well off financially so I can't even get a car loan (hense why my dad had to cosign for this one). With all of this going on, I know he won't do it again. Just been 2 weeks in hell

*done ranting*

Oh btw, I took my car 5 months ago to the garage I bought it from because it was burning oil, my fiance's father looked at it for me because he's a mechanic and he told me it was in bad shape. They told me "nothing is wrong" and since nothing was wrong charged me the engine diagnostic fee. Now 5 months later the engine is blown, gap insurance wont cover it because it wasn't in an accident.

jshriver, i feel for you. that totally sucks. It definatly sounds like the warranty inspector and/or the garage are trying to rip you off. here is the phone number for able - (419) 724-0460, maybe they can help. It cant hurt to call. Good luck to you.