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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon May 30 04:14:25 2011, in response to Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains, posted by JAzumah on Sun May 29 23:58:41 2011. You can't send the S40 or S48 to the airport at this point unless you want to kill the ridership on those routes. Those buses are the primary routes in their respective areas. The airport can and does kill the B15's reliability. The M60's irregularly does not destroy 125 Street because it is not the primary 125 Street route.I don't get you. You're against extending the S40 and S48 because of reliability, but you want the X17J and X22 (which already both deal with traffic on I-95, the Lincoln Tunnel, and Midtown Manhattan) through them. It's a silly reason anyway, if reliability would be such an issue past South Avenue, then simply put a dispatcher at that location and short-turn certain trips there. The S48 is already the highest-ridership route to St. George without Newark Airport, so utilization of the short-turn trips also shouldn't be an issue. The notion that low-income workers can't pay $5.50 one way is ridiculous. The key is to open up access to jobs that have higher pay scales. An express bus that already exists is easier to modify than a new one. I didn't say that, I said that your idea doesn't cater to low-income workers. Who from Mariners Harbor is going to take the S48, then S59 to the Expressway just to backtrack on the X17J? |
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