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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed May 6 23:40:43 2015, in response to Re: We Now Have Definitive Proof SBS is a Success, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed May 6 23:34:46 2015. I wasn't looking at other north south routes. I was looking at the borough average as te benchmark and ridership was down on the M15 greater than the borough average.Considering not all bus routes exist for the same purpose, it seems to be comparing the M15SBS to other north-south routes would make for a better comparison than comparing it to every route in the borough. Add to that, Councilman Ben Kallos stated he receives more complaints about the M15 than any other complaint that coes into his office. That sort of disagrees with the MTA's contention that 95% of riders are satisfied. Satisfied people don't complain. Just because a councilman is getting a lot of complaints about a bus doesn't mean that people are not satisfied, just that the ones who are contacting him are. Add to that an M15 bus driver stating on the site that buses are routinely 30 minutes late at the end ofthe day necessitating overtime. One driver? A single driver provides enough data points for you to trust? None of that indicates success. A fried of mine loves riding it at 10 PM because it s so quick. What about the rest of the day? Why do I see three or five SBS at a time whenever I check BusTime? Doesn't say much for reliability. I've taken the M15SBS a grand total of once and it worked fine for my purposes, but I wouldn't use that sample size as an indicator of anything. OTOH, people I know who take the bus regularly, took the bus before the SBS service launched, and still take it today think that the SBS service is an improvement over the old limited stop service. In one case, one of them said the bus was so fast, it was getting from Houston Street to 79th Street in 20 minutes, which I tried to explain to her required an average speed of about 30 MPH not including stops and was therefore probably not realistic. This is why no one takes you seriously here. |
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