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Re: Why Northern Brooklyn Needs Better Bus Service |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon May 14 22:52:58 2012, in response to Re: Why Northern Brooklyn Needs Better Bus Service, posted by Edwards! on Mon May 14 17:58:58 2012. Brooklyn was the hardest hit, because Brooklyn accounts for the largest number of bus miles. It is about the whole borough.Northern Brooklyn also needs better routing, but the need is more urgent in Southern Brooklyn. That's because Northern Brooklyn already had an excellent network of trolley routes which were later converted to buses. Southern Brooklyn did not have that network, only a few north south trolley routes, B41, B44, B46, B68 and the B63. Also the B64 as an east west route. Maybe a few others. All the others were originally bus routes designed to fill in gaps without changing any of the trolley routes. So the result was a hodgepodge of spaghetti instead of a rationally thought out system. In the 1930s, there actually was much experimentation with the new bus routes, but after that the system remained stagnant with less than a half dozen new routes and a bunch of little extensions. In the next six months, I intend to map proposals for Northern Brooklyn too. But I'm starting with Southern Brooklyn. |
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