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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Jul 11 20:53:32 2011, in response to Re: What is wrong with Select Bus Service, posted by Mr RT on Mon Jul 11 08:36:58 2011. The problem is not in the mindset of the folks in the bus division as you state. They view their role as keeping the buses on schedule, etc. The problem is in the minds of the budget people and Operations Planning who get their marching orders from them. Those folks are not part of the bus division, but the Bus Division must live by the rules OP sets.When I was head of Bus Planning or should I say Surface Planning back in 1981, it was Bus Transportation who called the shots because there was no consolidated Operations Planning for Buses and Subways. That was created in July, 1981. Bus Transportation wanted everything to remain status quo. I was not able to get them to increase or even decrease service where I thought there was too much service provided. The only changes they would make were if a safety issue was involved. Period. Now their goal is purely to reduce service. Strengthen strong bus routes so the weaker ones could be eliminated. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. Their goal should be to better connect neighborhoods by increasing options within available costs. They should seek to strengthen weak routes by determining why there is little demand for them and perhaps lengthen them to increase connections to make them more attractive, not to reduce service to kill them off. How could their primary mission be to break even if all bus routes perhaps one or two operate at a loss? If they eliminate all routes operating at a loss, there would be no bus system left. |
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