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Re: What is wrong with Select Bus Service |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jul 8 18:16:29 2011, in response to Re: What is wrong with Select Bus Service, posted by Mr RT on Fri Jul 8 16:53:44 2011. As you stated there is a real difference between a real BRT and the MTA's SBS. No one is proposing real BRT anywhere in NYC.You really can't compare SBS with building a subway because of the difference in capacity. It also isn't as easy to build SBS as you make it seem. Look it's taking three years of meetings with the NIMBY's and the Queens SBS in southeast Queens was cancelled. You also can't compare Express buses and SBS. One takes people directly into Manhattan and with the other they must transfer to a subway. SBS is flashy. I don't think that flashy is necessarily better. Many normal bus changes could be made that would increase subway usage and reduce the need for express buses. The most notable example is to extend the B9 along Shore Road to 101 Street. The B16 should be truncated at 4th Avenue and 86th Street. Some B1s could replace it along 86th Street. People who currently use express buses along Shore Road would have a local bus to the N express stop at 59th Street instead of taking a local bus to the R and having to change again at 59th Street, a major inconvenience especially with the poor headways and slowness of the R train. They would save at least 15 minutes, perhaps enough to be competitive with the express bus, enough to reduce service and operating costs. The problem is the at the MTA refuses to add any mileage to any local route, no matter how beneficial it would be. Their policy is if they add mileage, they must make a service cut elsewhere. Totally ridiculous. |
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