Broward County Transit – BCT

I almost got hit by a bus at 8:27 pm tonight! It ran a red light at Lyons Rd and Winston Park Blvd, speeding south down Lyons Rd. I was so shocked when it went whizzing by me when I was turning on my green arrow! This is dangerous and if I had turned 2 seconds earlier I would have been hit broadside on my drivers side!!! So unbelievable, I had to pull over to catch my breath!!! I am home safe now, but what in the world is wrong with these drivers!!! I’ve heard about this happening, just so glad it didn’t happen to me!!!

Now in October the people have to pay more and the service of all the buses are very bad!

It takes me 2 hours to take two buses to my job that is only 8 miles away. The bus is rarely on time and I always have at least a 45 min wait between buses at stops without even a bench to sit on.

Amazingly, it only took 2 hours to transit the 8 miles from the beach to Pompano Beach. Yes, the previous bus broke down, and no, they do not have a back up bus at the main terminal to keep a schedule, wait, it’s not a schedule, it’s a list of times that some view as a «stretch goal». BCT is truly a waste of money. My tax dollars at work, well, not really working. Broward county clearly wants us to all drive-​it increases tax revenue, and the pollution and accidents, well that’s just a necessary side effect.

UNACCEPTABLE. UNUSABLE means of transportation. 3 hours transit for 8 hours at work (TY Park)? #epicfail. #disgraceful.
Trip from TY Park at Sheridan & Park Road (route 12 east) to Davie Blvd (route 1 north) just took 2 hours 45 minutes. Clearly a waste of taxpayer money.
UNACCEPTABLE. (zero stars)

Well I decided to spend my money on public transportation instead of taking the cab, we all know how pricey that can be for a ¹⁵⁄₂₀ minute ride, so it did cost me $ 1.75 and 2 hours of my time but it was cheaper than a cab. I caught the first bus from the airport, I asked the bus before it questions on how to get to my destination– what a rude ass b. tch she was but whatever, I got on my bus when it came 7 minutes later. So I’m on route 1, I talk to the driver about getting to my destination he tells me where he will drop me off at, but 3 different times he asked what my destination address was, I showed him and even showed him the map with the GPS. He acted like he was sure but asking me that many times made me nervous. So the last time he asked he tells me to get out the stop after the terminal and to walk back to the terminal and catch the route 4, I had to do a lot of walking, but hey I made it whatever.

Terrible. Worst public transportation system I’ve ever had to use. If you’re lucky, you might catch a bus, but if you’re not, then you have to walk two miles to get to where you’re going with melting groceries… which is what I had to do.

Broward County Transit, Y U so useless? Similar to everything that is wrong with Miami-Dade’s transit, except Broward has no people, which should mean less traffic, and therefore no excuse! You had one job, BCT! Just one.
To Human Resources: if you ever in need of a ‘brain’ to help improve your inadequate transit system, phone me.

Time’s have changed.
I remember 10 years ago when the BCT fare was .75 for me, but damn, the privileges you get for being young… or even old, for that matter.
The most legendary route on the BCT is – without a shadow of a doubt — the #1 route. The #1 runs from Fort Lauderdale airport to the Aventura Mall (which you can then hop off and get onto Miami-​Dade transit, which you can then head over to South Beach to see naked people).
The price hike is somewhat discouraging, but don’t let it stop you from getting from point a to point b. In fact, as a warning, some locals have this fetish by telling people from out of the state that the public transportation in south Florida is somewhat horrendous, but this not true; in fact, it’s never true.
Besides a day pass, there’s the 7-​day week pass which is $ 16; the 31-​Adult pass for $ 58; 10-​ride bus pass for $ 16.

As a whole, the Broward County Transit bus service is good when you compare it to other such systems in Florida. For most major routes there is a bus every 20 or 30 minutes. So, with planning you can get to where you need to go throughout the county in an hour or less. However, the Broward County Transit system as a whole suffers from a lack of customer service orientation.
I am very concerned that they will pull a bus off of a scheduled route. If a bus has very few riders, they have asked those riders to disembark when they pull into a transit center, and have them wait to take the next bus. This has happened to me twice.
There have been times when the bus was so packed with people that even the elderly have had to stand up. The bus drivers do not enforce the rules that no radios be played on the bus, so other people’s music is often playing in the back of the bus.
I am a believe of using public transit so this will not dissuade me. The bus system works with Google to provide bus directions online. I will just have to be more self-​reliant, rely on using Google to find directions to destinations.