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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri May 27 09:09:25 2016, in response to Re: Queens Public Transit Committee Rally, posted by R30A on Thu May 26 21:08:26 2016. Wrong. No additional street engineering is proposed for the section where bus lanes have already been implemented under the new plans.And if left turns were eliminated, how would the hundreds of cars wanting to make left turns every minute be adequately accommodated? The reinstitution of those turns proves, DOT first made the proposal before collecting turning volumes data, and now once they did that, they now see what the communities saw all along, that it just couldn't work. Now they have added a bus lane in their proposal between the LIE and Queens Blvd. when I told them that only two left turn lanes into Queens Blvd is inadequate, the response was well we haven't collected any traffic data yet and the proposal is preliminary. However, it is not preliminary on their website. They are claiming it is their final proposal. There aren't even any more workshops scheduled with the area where the proposal us being made. And yes the bus lanes are faster in the other time periods by negligible amounts. Point 5 mph. While the decrease in speed during the AM northbound is 38%, Bus travel times have not been and will never be decreased by 35 percent as DOT previosly claimed. In fact they increased also during the AM peak. And as for the B44, we have had the parallel lines conversation before. What was supposed to have happened was ridership was supposed to have increased. It did not, so there wasn't any improvement in that regard. As far as more people being helped than hurt with more minutes saved under the plan, we still do not know if that was the case, without any reports issued. If the results were positive, there would have been reports. |
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