Re: MTA service cuts force bus passengers to take the subway

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.

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.