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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Wed Jul 1 22:30:41 2020, in response to Re: S92 Deadhead Observation, posted by Joe V on Tue Jun 30 19:08:16 2020. Either that is a misprint with the times one hour too late east of Southold or else they swap buses at the garage.I'm hoping it's the former, because if it's the latter it would make much more sense to do kind of what the S66 does by ending the existing trip at Greenport and creating a new short-turn trip between Greenport and Orient Point. If it's just a driver swap that shouldn't take a whole hour. I rode it from Hampton Bays to Orient Pt and back to Greenport in late September 2018. People use it for ferry connections. Several people got off the ferry with suitcases and took it it their B&B in Greenport. Freight bus modified by Hudson Body: http://forum.bustalk.info/viewtopic.php?p=27499&sid=42e452f45991b34cf384040cd2948486 Those are some really cool photos, appreciate you sharing that. I clearly stand corrected on no one riding it past Greenport, maybe I just caught a couple of lightly used trips. Judging by those photos it appears that the route was originally some kind of hybrid between a Greyhound-type service for connecting ferry passengers and a barebones rural transit route until the eastern end started developing more. Its evolution to what it has become today is truly remarkable. As generally conservative as Eastern Suffolk is, looking at how the 10C and S92 were the first Suffolk Transit routes to get Sunday Service, how they were able to get a second bus put on the 10B, and how they always lobby for better rail service, they surely do value the few public transportation options that they have. The North Fork was an entirely different place prior to it being wine country. It was quiet and quaint. Except for Friday - Sunday, most LIRR patrons took the LIRR bus from Huntington until MTA sabotaged the route with their incompetence in 1972. Hampton Jitney has essentially taken over that market ever since while LIRR thinks it is still 1955 and potato fields. Even Riverhead? I imagine that Riverhead has been what it is today for quite a while with the courts, aquarium, and water park there. |
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