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Re: MTA service cuts force bus passengers to take the subway |
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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Wed Nov 30 21:18:09 2011, in response to Re: MTA service cuts force bus passengers to take the subway, posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Nov 30 12:35:01 2011. Well, overall, the cuts affected something like 15% of bus riders. True, some of the routes carried a handful of riders, but the point is that if the bus is no longer convenient to use, ridership will drop.Yes, a lot of the routes didn't justify their existance ridership-wise and were rightfully eliminated, but the point is that we're discussing the fact that bus ridership dropped. If somebody had a whole bus to themselves before the reductions and the bus was eliminated and they no longer ride buses, the point is that ridership still dropped by 1 person (in that instance). It wasn't justified to use resources transporting that one person but the point is one person is no longer riding the buses. And you can look up the exact ridership numbers for the routes on this spreadsheet, copied directly from the MTA's stats (which unfortunately are no longer up, but the numbers are exactly the same): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aha-LfXMlWNBdGplTGJUVm9oZ25DT3JLRWRjbzZkT2c# The Q76 Saturday elimination affected over 2,000 riders. The Q79 elimination affected 650 riders on weekdays and 160 riders on Saturdays. The S54 elimination affected 1,100 weekend riders. As there was no proximate alternative for any of those routes, most of the ridership just disappated. Add there were eliminations where there was still service in the neighborhood, but it was more inconvenient, which caused ridership to drop. Between the above mentioned eliminations with no proximate alternative (except for riders with certain specific origins and destinations) and the ones where the alternatives were more inconvenient, that explains the drop in ridership. |
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