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Re: MTA service cut proposals by borough---Brooklyn (All listed) |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jan 29 10:48:21 2010, in response to Re: MTA service cut proposals by borough---Brooklyn (All listed), posted by brightonr68 on Thu Jan 28 23:15:47 2010. So what are you saying that if there is a predicted deline in the economy, the MTA should start reducing service before it might be warranted? That makes no sense to me.Yes some service is inefficient, but I don't think that is even the major issue, because I don't believe that efficiency of bus service should even be the major goal. The service must also be effective which is just as important. The most efficent service you could have is where all the buses are always operating at peak capacity and there is a queue of people at each stop waiting to get on. Buses would be very slow and the people wouldn't be adequately served, but in terms of dollars received to money being expended to run those services, the efficiency would be extremely high. I agree that high levels of subsidies, however, encourages waste, by eliminating the desire to find and eliminate waste, if they can always request and receive more subsidies. The purpose of increasing tolls on the TBTA bridges was to provide more money to fund the buses and trains, since the roads didn't need the extra money, but the subways did, and was regarded as a social good. But the MTA decides to spend much of the toll money on the railroads, not to where it was intended to go. That has to be addressed. |
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