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Re: Why We Need a Moratorium on Future SBS Routes |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Feb 24 16:17:22 2015, in response to Re: Why We Need a Moratorium on Future SBS Routes, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Feb 24 11:23:19 2015. I don't understand what you are saying.Let me go over this again. I stated that pedestrian volume was so great in front of the parking lot driveway that guards were required to stop the pedestrians and allow cars to enter/exit. You countered that the pedestrians were there because they were walking between the bus stop and the subway entrance. Your assertion would be true only if the parking lot driveway were between the subway and the bus stop. The parking lot driveway does not lie between the bus stop and subway entrance; it lies south of the bus stops and the subway entrances. Therefore the people walking past the parking lot driveway are not bus riders; they are local residents. The bus terminal bottleneck will be moving the buses in and out of the terminal. There are approximately 4000 different buses stopping in Flushing on a given weekday. That comes to 167 per hour and 2.8 per minute. That allows each bus only 21.6 seconds to move in or out of the terminal. Otherwise, there will be a bus backup in the terminal or a traffic backup on the street. The timing is actually much worse because I assumed uniform scheduling throughout a 24 hour day. The allotted time will be 5 to 10 seconds during rush hours. This just isn't practical in the real world. |
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