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Posted by JAzumah on Sat Jul 21 14:10:09 2012 Overall, I think that approximately half of the bus service restorations shouldn't happen. The fare hike postponement should not happen. As much as I am not a fan of public unions, the bottom line is that the MTA should NEVER defer revenue. This economy is very weak and the point of the regular fare increases was to try and restore the MTA's financial footage.Having said that, there is an opportunity to restructure the X17 into a more productive system. The Bay Ridge stop is a bad idea, but off-peak service via the X22 is an excellent idea. It provides more territory to cover in order to support the core operations on Richmond Avenue. I have always wanted to split off the southern section into a peak hour express route in order to eliminate dead miles. If I had a shot at restructing the X17, I would do the following: 1) Add a new route called the X18 that would run from the Outerbridge to Newark Airport. X18 Schedule 2) Run the southern section of the X17J as the new X20 every 20 minutes. It would run from ETC and run the lower portion of the route in reverse. X20 Schedule 3) Add a new X17T service pattern that would alternate with the X17C. The X17T would run via the X22 to Veterans Road, then proceed to the ETC and run via the X17C. Each branch would run hourly and be coordinated. I paid for the majority of this restructuring by starting/ending most X17J buses at ETC, reducing its peak AM frequency to 7.5 minutes and peak PM frequency to every 9 minutes. I staggered the departures to promote more even loading on the X17J, which usually has one packed bus and another half empty bus right behind it. Essentially, I ran a 10 minute headway with some buses spaced 5 minutes apart to minimize doubling up. Shortening the X17J and reducing the frequency frees 10 buses up. 7 goes to the new X20 and 3 go to the new X18. The X17T uses existing frequencies, but I expect an incremental cost of almost one bus. |
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