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Re: Summary and Video of November 2015 SBS meeting in Woodhaven |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Jan 31 11:50:05 2016, in response to Re: Summary and Video of November 2015 SBS meeting in Woodhaven, posted by R30A on Mon Jan 25 21:17:17 2016. Everything would have to be rebuilt with exactly the same capacity as was previously there.Thus proves you do not know what you are talking about. Many changes other than ADA were made at the rebuilt stations. Stairways were widened at all stations and additional stairways were added (Avenue M for example.) Yet none of the local stations received elevators. The busway would be able to make all the crosstown bus connections presently available on Woodhaven and no existing connections would be removed because bus service would still remain on Woodhaven. The ramp would come down to street level at Liberty for the buses to continue on the surface so I do not understand what would be do incredibly hard to connect if a busway is chosen, but rail would be superior anyway. Prove it would be incredibly expensive. BRT on Woodhaven is what would be incredibly expensive and would take a very long time to complete. Every DOT project is delayed by at least three years. The seven Belt Parkway bridges were due to be completed in mid-2014 and the reconstruction of the Mill Basin Bridge has not even begun. So if DOT is projecting 2022 for completion of BRT if it is done, that realistically would mean 2025. That's 11 years since they decided on BRT and more than that if you consider the years they were considering SBS. So no way is it short term and cost efficient at almost a quarter billion dollars with countless negatives. The people requesting a busway are certainly not anti-transit advocates. If they were they would have not suggested other bus improvements they believe are needed that the MTA won't even consider since SBS/BRT is the only thing they are looking at. So quit making untrue statements. |
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