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Re: Attention all B36 Bus riders |
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Posted by randyo on Tue Apr 19 15:55:53 2016, in response to Re: Attention all B36 Bus riders, posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Apr 18 17:25:59 2016. Actually, the concept of combining bus and subway planning and scheduling was created for better functionality and coordination between the departments of buses and subways. In the late 1970s, when I first went into rapid transit scheduling, I worked briefly on a project to try and improve connections between buses and trains at locations where bus routes served as feeders to subway lines such as Flatbush/Nostrand, Sheepshead Bay, and 205 St/Concourse just to name a few. At the time both TA and OA bus schedules were located at the old FACCO 132 St Depot in Manhattan before moving to ENY. Unfortunately. nothing came of that attempt and nothing was done until the Gunn/Kiley administration took over the MTA and decided to change the entire management structure of the NYCTA by eliminating the last tier that existed between supervision and management and create more levels of management which included the establishment of an operating Planning Dept which was supposed to assist in coordinating the operations of bot the Dept of Buses and the Dept of Subways, both of which were also newly created departments that differed slightly from the pre Gunn management structure. Unfortunately, the true integration of the 2 scheduling units was not achieved as originally envisioned I suspect partially because some of the old managers were still in place and wanted to hold on to the old ways as long as possible. Also, Jay St was only a temporary measure as a new facility was being built at 130 Livingston and the departments weren’t even fully combined until moved to a temporary facility in the former Korvettes dept store on Lawrence St. |
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