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Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive) |
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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Sun Aug 16 23:21:31 2015, in response to Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive), posted by dkupf on Sun Aug 16 19:45:37 2015. You tell me: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zlRfMEZyDLOI.kUNROdz8N3Zc&msa=0&ll=40.610304,-74.099693&spn=0.153514,0.308647There's no such thing as "the Travis". It ends at the Con Edison plant in the neighborhood of Travis. In any case, I assume that the route it would take to get from Victory Blvd over to the WSP would be the West Shore Expressway (rather than Travis Avenue, which would basically leave an entire neighborhood isolated and without local transit service). I'm telling you, as somebody who is familiar with the area, that if such an analysis were to be done, it would show that it is not worth the additional cost (both financial, and in terms of service reliability) to extend the S62 over there. But you can feel free to suggest it to them if you want. You do realize that "analysis" was a half-assed job, right? I asked them "Since the S57A/B and S59A/B signify that those routes would be split somewhere down the middle, where exactly would that split occur?", and they said they hadn't figured that out yet. (And it is obvious that they would require a split, since a rush hour S59 from Tottenville to St. George via Richmond Avenue is just asking for trouble. The S44 is unreliable as is, and that just goes to the mall). Aside from that, they didn't consider the fact that they could significantly increase the time savings by having the S83 bypass the Grasmere/South Beach area entirely. That would save you 10 minutes right there, for everybody west of Targee Street. You don't think that would increase ridership? |
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