Published Friday, March 28, 2003, in the Palo Alto Daily News

Daily News letter gets bus sign posted

By Tami Min
Daily News Staff Writer

A Palo Alto woman said her letter to the editor published in the
Daily News' debut Sunday edition paid off for her and other
commuters.

Trudy Bowman wrote a letter to the Daily News about the lack of a
sign at the downtown Palo Alto Caltrain station telling people where
to catch a bus on the weekends. Caltrain's weekend service has been
stopped and won't start up again until March 2004 because of a major
upgrade project.

After the letter <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BATN/message/11182>
was published Sunday, Caltrain spokeswoman Rita Haskin sent a
handwritten apology note to Bowman. Haskin wrote the note after
reading Bowman's letter in the Sunday Daily News.

Haskin told Bowman the agency will post information about weekend
bus service at the station.

Bowman said she and other people went to the downtown Caltrain
station April 16, a Sunday, to travel to San Francisco to watch a
ballet. But when they got there, they couldn't find the bus stop.
Bowman, 75, said. And there was "not a single word about there not
being a train and yes there being a bus."