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Re: [Editorial?]That Long Island Bus experiment isn’t going very well |
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Posted by Charles G on Thu Mar 29 07:21:04 2012, in response to [Editorial?]That Long Island Bus experiment isn’t going very well, posted by N6 Limited on Thu Mar 29 00:21:43 2012. It's unbelievable (well, actually quite believable) the degree to which people spout off opinions with no actual experience.Having spent much of my life in and around Nassau, with a mother who is still there and reliant on the bus as her only means of transport, I tend to follow the happenings quite closely. My opinion is that Veolia has probably put more thought into the idea of "getting more done with less" in about 6 months than the MTA did in the last 10 years combined. The most simple example is the N14. For years, the N14 has had 2 buses providing service every 10 minutes around the RVC loop during rush hours. Yet the express trains to Penn Station run about every 20 minutes. So the bus that provides a connection with an express train will have 20+ riders, and the next bus will have 2. Even the most brain-dead person can realize that if you just have the bus connect with the express trains you can cut your costs in half while causing a 10 minute delay to a small percentage of your ridership. Yet when this finally gets implemented it gets called a "50% service reduction" and people cry foul. End of rant. |
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