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Re: NJ Transit to cut five bus routes |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu May 31 23:42:39 2012, in response to Re: NJ Transit to cut five bus routes, posted by BusMgr on Sat May 19 12:19:11 2012. On the other hand, if 5 people are "affected" by a different service change, and if we assume here, arguendo, that the result is that each person has no alternative service and must instead walk for 60 minutes to reach their destination, then the effect can be quantified as 300 person-minutes.There's a flip side here though... sometimes reducing the bus schedule on a popular route results in people who want to take a scheduled bus (and arrive on time for it) being shut out of a bus that has gotten too crowded. Such a situation is absolutely unacceptable regardless of the time difference because the bus system's reliability has been compromised. Also in Albany there was a similar argument about our route restructuring. Many runs of several routes had patronages of less than 5 for the unique portion of their route. Meanwhile, there were higher density destination pairs that had no direct service, and one entire neighborhood that had no bus at all. By axing the lines that regularly patronage on the level of a car pool, we got brand new routes that have 15-20 people per bus over the unique portion of their routes. These people save time by either not having to walk for 10 minutes for their bus or not having to wait 20 minutes for a transfer. It doesn't matter if a bus commute is "possible" if it takes twice as long as driving; it becomes equally as useless to most residents as if there was no bus at all. The bottom line is you have to do the most good with the resources you have. |
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