We have received a brief communication from the 9-member Foothill Transit Delegation to Paris and other points in France. They spent the Fourth of July in Rouen, the capital city of Normandie province. The Executive Director of Foothill Transit, Doran Barnes, says that Rouen is very like the Foothill Transit service area.
Now, since we haven't had the advantages of foreign travel that Director Barnes is having, we'll leave it to him to elaborate on the similarities at the next Foothill Transit meeting after his return. So far as we can tell--and we're no experts--the chief similarities are that they both use buses and have a system map, though not the same buses nor the same map. Oh. And they are both managed by French companies.
We have covered the French adventure here, and here. The Foothill Cities Blog contributes an explanation by Foothill Transit in comment 2 of this post.
Darold Pieper, agency general counsel, who valiantly is on the clock every business day, contributed this note on Friday's activities:
Hi Everybody: We are really busy, so I will just send two transit-related pictures from Rouen.We saw this bus of the TEOR system. It takes a country mile to turn around, which in French they say hectare du pays. Doran is figuring it will be perfect for the Claremont Trolley Route.
Dave Reyno tried this form of public transit in Rouen. Ha Ha.
All for now; free day tomorrow. DP
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