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Re: Bus Transfer in Secaucus Part of No. 7 Extension Plan? |
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Posted by JAzumah on Wed Jul 20 08:43:07 2011, in response to Re: Bus Transfer in Secaucus Part of No. 7 Extension Plan?, posted by RailBus63 on Wed Jul 20 00:11:05 2011. As a baby, my family rode subway trains that had to run through smoke conditions created by track fires. The people screaming about Christie have forgotten or have no direct knowledge of what the subways used to be like. The subways got that way because they stopped maintaining them. The subways went from being a cash cow to a cash drain because of government policies.$250,000 is a lot of money and I don't want it spent on projects that should not see the light of day. The idea of rerouting passengers onto rail service is the type of efficiency seeking that drives passengers off the transit system, much as excessive truncation of bus routes to light rail stations does the same thing. It will damage NJT Bus in the medium term because the profitability of its NYC bus network stems from direct service into NYC. Those profits are reinvested into the rest of the NJ bus network that needs subsidies. The truncation of some of these services into Secaucus will kill off at least 30% of the bus service in NJ. I cannot support that. |
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