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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sun Jun 6 08:53:49 2021, in response to Re: Signal priority in NYC, posted by Stephen Bauman on Sun Jun 6 08:14:15 2021. Typical crappy NYC study that raises more questions than it answers, just like the SBS studies that only looked at the first year of service, and results weren't even published when they weren't favorable like the B46 route.Well, first of all the report is four years old. What's been happening since 2017? It's been greatly expanded since then? Have the results been the same? Second, obviously no panacea as it's been presented and suppirted by most candidates for mayor. Buses are slowest on streets that are most congested and apparently that's not where it works best. Improvements range between one and 25 percent. 0bviously, not cost effective when it's around one percent. So will they expand it haphazardly or where they know it works best? Also, a study needs to be fair by looking at the effects for all. While some bus service may have been improved, there is no mention at all as to its effects on other traffic. If at one location it made bus service 1 percent faster, but other traffic say 10 percent slower, that obviously would not have meant success. But NYC never produces a report where they can't claim a "huge" success. I still remember the traffic study showing success for the Broadway Mall. The study area was purposely defined as from 9 Ave to the East River so as not to show increased traffic on 10 Ave, 11 Ave, and the West Side Highway. Commoner sense shows the study area should have been from 3rd to 9th or river to river, but East River to 9th made no sense unles you wanted to skew the results. |
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