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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jun 14 18:45:18 2016, in response to Re: Dictatorship not Democracy, posted by R30A on Thu Jun 9 20:05:21 2016. No the MAJOR FAIL is with your arithmetic not mine. The portion where statistics are given Metropolitan to Furmanville is not the complete bus lane. It is only half the lane. So the complete lane that was thus far installed would be a six minutes delay, not three. And since that amounts to only half the proposed lane, the delay from Rockaway Blvd to Queens Blvd would be at least 12 minutes, and probably 15 minutes because an extension of the bus lane from Eliot Avenue to Queens Blvd would add at least another two minutes. Your 7.5 minute delay is fictitious because your arithmetic is off.And that doesn't take into account the proposed lanes are not contiguous so the delay would even be greater. For argument sake, let's assume signal improvements wash out the extra delay and you are still left with a 14 minute delay, about twice what you say it is. You say DOT didn't show the delay for the entire bus lane because of increased turnover. They are not taking down license plate numbers or doing a survey. They are doing pure counts, so they gave no idea what the turnover is. They did not show the delay for the entire bus lane in order to mislead and make the delay appear less tan it really is. But the arithmetic for the portion shown IS A 38 PERCENT DECREASE IN TRAVEL SPEED. You can deny that all you want, BUT THAT'S WHAT THE ARITHMETIC WORKS OUT TO BE WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE DECLINE OF 19.5 MPH TO 12 MPH. You say cars won't have to travel an average speed of 10 to 12 mph for eight mikes, but all indications show that us exactly what will happen. |
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