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Posted by Kew Gardens Teleport on Sat Jul 9 12:41:59 2011, in response to Re: What is wrong with Select Bus Service, posted by B49 Limited on Sat Jul 9 09:47:15 2011. No, you're missing the wood for the trees. You could make similar excessively detailed statements about ridership patterns on these routes:
Except those ones made an operating profit. There's nothing wrong with the ridership or utilization of either group of routes, nor do either seem to have a particularly significant rate of fare evasion. It's just that the MTA let the fare get so low in proportion to bus operators' wages that a whole bunch of routes that should have been making an operating profit instead ended up making a loss and destroying the funding for routes that could only be justified in terms of network coverage (such as the Q79). The whole financial crisis and service cuts mess on the local buses was avoidable and unnecessary, had the MTA only ensured that the average fare kept up with their operating costs. |
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