Green Mountain Meandering Missives

Image: Screenshot of Green Mountain Transit bus (via Seven Days article). Seven Days recently reported about potential cuts to routes and service by Green Mountain Transit  (GMT), a public transportation company, here . According to the article, the potential cuts include the Montpelier Link Express (route #86), providing bus service between the cities of Montpelier  (the Capital of Vermont ) and Burlington : [...]  The plan could potentially eliminate some of the Montpelier LINK times and the weekday airport route. This is the bus route that I would have needed to take to Burlington and back home if I had to show up for jury duty  at the US District Court building during a scheduled four week long trial that was supposed to begin later this month. Fortunately, the case had gotten cancelled. Someone had posted on the subject of the proposed bus route and service cuts to Montpelier's Front Porch Forum today (Wednesday), writing in part: "[...] GMT is not (and I do...

Last month I had received a summons from the US District Court to appear for jury duty in Burlington later this month for what, if selected to serve, would have been a four week long court trial. It would have been a rough commute utilizing public transit bus service back and forth between Montpelier and Burlington as well as a rather long day for just the first -- of what would have been jury selection -- day, forget for seventeen (17) days during the entire length of the trial held over the four weeks as had been scheduled (there were three days during the month of October when the trial was not scheduled to be held). Although I was hoping to either be excused or not be selected, if selected to serve, I would have attempted to do my best. Had not known what the trial was about and, wanting to remain fair and impartial in case I had been among the jurors selected to serve on the jury during the Voir Dire process, did not want to know (until and unless informed on the first day of the ...