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Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains |
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Posted by Hank EisenStein on Fri May 27 05:06:59 2011, in response to Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains, posted by Osmosis Jones on Thu May 26 17:59:56 2011. If you take transit on a regular basis, you time your trips; people aren't going to start their trip PLANNING to wait 15 minutes for a service that runs on a schedule; they're going to plan their trip for the shortest wait time that's reasonable without potentially missing their connection.I'm not saying anything about the 40; I'm saying the only way to make the 54 more of an attractive route is to send it to the ferry. I only included the high school, but there are also a few shopping centers along Guyon, and at Amboy Rd within a few hundred feet of Guyon, that make this slightly more necessary. I don't foresee a bus route along Amboy. The SIR is always withing 1/4 of a mile of Amboy (which crosses the ROW three times between Bay Terrace and Pleasant Plains) and at most stations west of Nassau, you can SNEEZE on Amboy Rd from the platform. The TA just eliminated several routes that duplicated subway service in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. I don't see them adding a route that does just that. Not many of those thousands of Port Newark/Port Elizabeth workers come from Staten Island, and while there could be a cost savings to the individual, it would still be a subsidized service, which would be an overall increase of costs to the agency that would run such a service and thus the taxpayers. The commute time by transit would also be longer than the car ride, and likely require a transfer to a connecting service, just as many NJT riders do once they arrive in NYC. If I had a choice of driving to work along a relatively congestion-free route with low-cost or no-cost parking, or needing to adhere to a transit schedule that requires me to make a connection, I'm choosing to drive every time. That's the OPPOSITE of what makes transit an attractive alternative. |
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