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Re: Ideas for express bus from Long Island |
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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Wed May 23 15:02:02 2012, in response to Re: Ideas for express bus from Long Island, posted by RailBus63 on Wed May 23 09:10:24 2012. That's the thing though, the train isn't convenient from a lot of these places (not from Long Island standards). I wonder what the data is on how many people are driving into Manhattan from all these different areas. I know they have studies showing from the 5 boros, anything from Long Island? Remember, this is just a first draft. It's got way more fat than I actually would want, but I threw it all out there to see what ideas you guys thought were good and bad. Obviously certain lines would skip certain stops that could be served by other lines. Maybe only one run from each line stops at Queens College? Maybe only the X495 serves the LIE park and rides? There's plenty of room to fine tune it all. As for the reverse commuters, who are they? Is it mostly shift workers? If so is it your typically 7am start, 3pm finish? Or are the work hours different? If you have someone that needs to be in at 7am, you could easily have that bus turn in some situations and do the last run back to the city and still get in before 9am. Example could be a bus runs out from Manhattan or just from Queens to Hempstead, Hofstra, NUMC, SUNY Fdale, and Melville. It could then turn and do either a run from Melville Park and Ride or from Republic Airport back to the city. In the evening, if they're getting off at 3PM it's perfect timing to get into the city for 6PM runs back out to the island.Also as far as deadheading, perhaps these buses could be integrated with other services running during the day out of the city. I believe that's what Great Escape does. A driver will do an AM commuter run, and then go to Boston and back. Another bus will do a Boston and back, and then do the PM commuter run out to the island. I've seen them leave the buses at Christopher Morley overnight. Or they'll do some other combination of commuter + charter, or commuter + casino. For this project though, a good place for a yard would probably be Hauppauge |
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