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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Apr 17 19:29:43 2024, in response to Re: Queens Bus Redesign - Total Numbers, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Apr 17 17:24:15 2024. I don’t follow how could the extra walking distance to and from a bus stop only be an additional 50 feet when the average bus stop spacing is increasing by 443 feet? Doesn’t that mean the added walk is half that or 221 feet, not 50 feet? So instead of 11 seconds, wouldn’t it be like 45 seconds at each end using straight line distances and like a minute using actual distances, assuming someone doesn’t just miss a bus in that minute?At 8.6 mph in 30 minutes you currently travel 4.3 miles. In 15 min, you travel 2.15 miles At 8.8 mph in 30 minutes you will travel 4.4 miles. In 15 min, you travel 2.2 miles. So if the average local bus trip is 2.3 miles, currently an average trip takes 16.04 minutes plus walking and waiting. Under the proposal, an average trip would take 15.68 minutes plus walking and waiting. If we add the extra walk time of 45 seconds at each end, the total is now 17.8 minutes or over two minutes longer. Even if we only add 11 seconds at each end, the total trip time is still greater than at present. So how is wider bus stop spacing beneficial to the passenger? The cut in revenue hours clearly only benefits the MTA and represents a service cut unless the routes are more direct with fewer transfers needed. Judging from the opposition, I doubt this is the case. |
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