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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri May 27 10:43:15 2016, in response to Re: Queens Public Transit Committee Rally, posted by R30A on Fri May 27 09:21:03 2016. "By taking a different route"That is not an adequate response. We need to know what routes will be taken and how much additional time those detours will take. DOT proposed these turn restrictions before studying their effects. Take Metropolitan for example. First they said one of the alternates was for trucks to bake a 270 degree left turn. When I showed them that turn could only be made with great difficulty and woukd delay traffic, they abandoned that plan and instead proposed Trotting Coyrse Lane be made a two-way. When they were shown that was not feasible, they put back the left turn restriction at Furmanville and proposed a one mile detour. When that was also shown to be a poor alternative, they finally decided to collect sone data and concluded the left turns need to stay. So don't blame the "nutjobs" in the community. Blame the incompetents at DOT. They are not folding because of any pressure. They are folding because they finally realize their proposals to ban left turns woukd not have worked. I claim they have not collected data because I was quoting the DOT "engineer" who told me they have not yet collected data. "Good. It sounds like DOT is learning." Now you have completely discredited yourself if you believe that government has the right to do whatever it wants without any community input, which is what you just stated. No it is not obvious that sone people's travel times will be reduced when bus travel times also increase. And for every 5 people who save five minutes, it doesn't matter if 1,000 people will lose five minutes. SBS was supposed to reverse the trend of declining bus ridership. THAT WAS ONE OF ITS GOALS. Now you are saying it doesn't matter if that didn't happen. "Any sane observer can tell that service has been greatly improved on all SBS lines" By that definition, anyone who does not agree with that conclusion is either insane or a nutjob. Sounds like someone who has his mind made up and is unwilling to change it based on the facts. |
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