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Posted by N6 Limited on Wed Jul 21 13:57:18 2010, in response to Re: I was quoted in today's New York Times, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jul 20 21:02:34 2010. "To do adequate planning you have to have a feel for passenger habits, why people take and do not take buses, what influences their decisions, etc. The MTA is in the complete dark about this. For example, they think that people will wait for a bus until it comes even if they have to wait for an hour. They don't. After five or ten minutes, most will start walking or seeking alternate means, unless there absolutely isn't any. They don't realize that many people will only take a bus on the spur of the moment, i.e. that is if they see one coming. They don't realize that some people go to work one way and come back with another route."Yeah that's true, where I live, if the N6 takes too long, people will walk to Queens and take the Q2 or Q110. I've done it a few times. Also I didn't always take the same bus routes too and from work, It varied on the bus schedule, the time, etc. For these surveys, can they put them online to save some money? Or, do they have to be handed out to hope that people will actually fill them out? "When I worked in Operations Planning many years ago, I made what I thought was an obvious statement of fact, that in poor weather (rain, snow or cold) fewer people are willing to walk to the subway and would rather ride a bus instead to the train. My boss looked at me as if I was crazy and responded. What makes you think so? Did you ever do a study that showed that? How do you know that's true? This is what you are dealing with. " They really have idiots that work there like that? It's fairly obvious as to why that statement would be true. |
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