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Re: Sign if you agree. RE:bus stop spacings |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Fri Jan 10 19:07:47 2020, in response to Re: Sign if you agree. RE:bus stop spacings, posted by Stephen Bauman on Fri Jan 10 18:13:47 2020. They are assuming that it wouldn't encourage any new trips. That's why they believe it is a revenue loser. It is the same reason they used for 50 years not to allow universal free bus transfers, because they assumed it wouldn't result in new trips being made. Ridership rose 30 percent after bus to bus and bus subway transfers started.Many people don't want to pay for a round trip just to make a short errand, but would do so if they could combine several errands. People assume the "experts" know what they are doing. Around 1966, I spoke to Theodore Kheel and asked him to fight for free transfers for all bus users. This was four years after MaBSTOA abolished all bus transfers, but Brooklyn allowed free transfers at about half the intersections. He told me he had no idea there were free transfers in Brooklyn. So the chief labor negotiator who was also involved with the fare, didn't even know the fare structure in the city. It made me wonder what else do these so called experts not know that us bus riders do know. |
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