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Re: NICE Bus cuts to be mostly restored in June 2016, official says |
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Posted by Joe on Sat Aug 27 12:14:50 2016, in response to NICE Bus cuts to be mostly restored in June 2016, official says, posted by gOld_12th on Sun Mar 27 09:49:54 2016. Since the n80 and n81 were reinstated, I have been observing their ridership when they pass near the Massapequa LIRR station. At most, I have seen 3 passengers on board. It would be interesting to see ridership figures for the entire system, but dropping service for five months teaches passengers how to travel with other means, or some may have to change jobs if they cannot get to work at low enough fare.--- The eastern end of N19 was cut back to Sunrise Mall, and over the NICE years the number of scheduled runs has been reduced. I see fewer riders on the N19 than in the LIBus era. If ridership drops, management lengthens headways. If management lengthens headways, ridership drops more. --- Well, my surprise was to see the first Saturday eastbound N54 pass the Massapequa post office this morning, shortly after sunrise on Sunrise Highway. It left Hempstead at 6:00. There were at least a dozen passengers, and it was bound for Sunrise Mall and Amityville. Three workers got off at Broadway. One woman appeared to head for the Zwanger-Pesiri nearby, which would open at 8 a.m. Two man went different directions, maybe grab a coffee and then head to work near Merrick Road (supermarket, etc.). My point is that bus transit serves a public benefit: getting the low-paid workers to businesses before they open in the morning. I don't see the workers going in flocks to a big factory (as River Rouge), but rather beginning a day's labor at the stores and services we expect to use. Had I boarded that 6 a.m. departure from Hempstead, I may have found a crowd starting with the trip, but also a fair amount of on-and-off boarding, as the Jerusalem Avenue Bus Line may have been intended to do when it began around 1930. |
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