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Posted by dkupf on Wed Sep 2 00:07:58 2015, in response to Re: Study to Improve Staten Island Bus Service (Source: SILive), posted by checkmatechamp13 on Tue Sep 1 22:49:55 2015. OK. You convinced me.I'm dropping my S47 proposal, and rallying to yours. I guess that those who wish to travel to the Staten Island Zoo will just continue doing what they're doing now. But you don't have to convince me. You have to convince the service planners by using the same argument you just gave to me about weekend service via Jewett Ave and Grymes Hill. But, I do think that having S74/84 service, both branches (like the Bx4/Bx4A in Parkchester), and the S59 terminate at the Bricktown Mall is better. I think that it would make service for these routes, at least theoretically, more manageable compared to your proposal. For the S55 via the Bricktown Mall to Perth Amboy, making only one stop at the NJT Rail station, is a great idea. But, as I stated above, you have to convince the service planners by telling them that this is only one stop in New Jersey, i.e., no worse than the S89 via the Bayonne Bridge. As well as the operation of the S54 via the SI Mall with partial restoration of weekend service, and the S57 extension via Mill Rd, instead of the S76/86, in Oakwood Heights. And, of course, an S83 based on the North Shore Alternatives Analysis (NSAA) TSM alternative, but would operate via Narrows Rd instead of operating via Grasmere/South Beach. The S77, however, would be harder to sell. The service planners could easily claim duplication and that ridership doesn't support two local routes AND an SBS route, in order to kill such an idea before you could convince them otherwise. BTW, I found your map on the petition site, but it doesn't show the S48/98 extension via the Goethals Bridge. How would the route operate? And, if you had to favor an alternative in the NSAA, with modifications if necessary, what would it be? (I'm sure that you know that under all of the rail-based alternatives, NYCT claims that the S40/90 would have to be discontinued. I'm sure that the North Shore communities have made it abundantly clear that the elimination of this route won't be tolerated, maybe the elimination of the S90, but definitely not the S40 also.) |
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