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Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive) |
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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Sat Aug 15 16:49:43 2015, in response to Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive), posted by dkupf on Fri Aug 14 18:35:50 2015. I want you to rephrase my S66 proposal in your own words so I'm sure you're understanding it. The S66 would not run along Jewett under my proposal.I want you to tell me what's so special about the WSP that makes it such a trip generator. You have the DMV (which almost by definition, people are going to be driving there. Unless your license got suspended or something, there's very few people who would be taking a bus to get there). Then you have the Burlington Coat factory (which isn't anything you can't get at JC Penny or Macy's at the SI Mall), a little overpriced supermarket (again, nothing you can't get in a more easily accessible neighborhood), a Chuck-E-Cheeses (again, there's arcades all over the place), and a gym. Meanwhile, you're going to subject the S62 to the delays of the WSE (which, even if it's only for one exit, are going to have an impact). Aside from that, you're underestimating how many people use it in Travis. I've seen plenty of SRO buses west of Richmond Avenue, especially when school is in session. For the S57, fair enough. For the S83, you're assuming the local and limited would run at the same frequencies, and run the full route from Bay Ridge to Port Richmond. That's not what I had in mind. You can do it one of two ways: Run the S83 every half hour, and Brooklyn-bound riders would try to time themselves for the S83. (So instead of 6 buses per hour, run 5 buses per hour on the S53, and 2 buses per hour on the S83, keeping in mind that the time savings would result in cost savings). Alternatively, run the S83 to Port Richmond, and cut the S53 back to either West New Brighton (S54 terminal), or Victory Blvd, and run them each at 12-15 minute frequencies. |
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