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Re: Will Queens Bus Redesign really speed things up?

Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri May 3 09:47:55 2019, in response to Re: Will Queens Bus Redesign really speed things up?, posted by New Flyer #857 on Fri May 3 08:53:44 2019.

That's a question only the MTA can answer. They know what legally they can and cannot do. Given that factor, I would think Queens would be more complicated than the other boroughs and would think it should be the last borough studied. That would give the MTA a few more years to perhaps allow them to integrate the two agencies a little more. But I think the purpose of this study is just to cut costs and see where they can eliminate service, not to improve service for the passengers. Maybe they view Queens as least able to resist service cuts so they are doing the study now.

They will probably take the same tact as they did in 2010. Announce so many service cuts at once so that politicians and residents will only be able to focus on and fight the worst ones, knowing the others will get through, so their goal is accomplished to run less service and lower operating expenses. Ridership will of course continue to decline under that scenario.

Queens and Staten Island are the two boroughs that need the most additional service. If any borough has too much bus service, it would be Manhattan. But they know cutting service in Manhattan would receive the most opposition, so they are putting off studying that borough.

They only want you to think the goal is to make service better. When the Bronx proposals are released, that will tell you what to expect for the other boroughs. If it receives much opposition and fails like the Staten Island Express Study, I wouldn't be surprised if they call it quits after the Queens study without studying the others, concluding like they did in the mid-eighties that bororough studies just don't work.

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