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Re: B42 Buses Don't Seem to Be Coordinated with the L Train |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Apr 20 17:22:02 2017, in response to B42 Buses Don't Seem to Be Coordinated with the L Train, posted by nh153 on Wed Apr 19 22:09:12 2017. I took the B42 when I was three years old in 1952 and the last and first stop has always been on the other side of the Belt Parkway with no stop at the pier regardless of what any map shows.I always thought that was extremely dumb and shows the NYCTA /MTA just doesn't care. So in 1978 when I was at the Department of City Planning I spoke to the group working with the National Park Service on ways to improve transit to the Gateway National Recreation Area. I suggested that at least in the summer the last stop be at the Pier. It would require no extra route mileage and would have cost nothing. They asked for it and the dumb bureaucratic response was that it could not be done because at that time bus passengers would have had to wait in an area where there was dirt and there was no money to add sixty feet of asphalt. So the group asked the Feds to pay for it and I do not remember what their answer was but bottom line it was never done. Now traffic lanes have been removed and there is ample safe room for people to wait and still it is not done. The MTA and city keep talking about encouraging the use of bass transit, but refuse to do something so simple as this. Perhaps it is time to ask again just to see what type of nonsense excuse they offer this time. |
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