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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Mar 4 22:19:31 2026 The title summarizes the story. I calculated scheduled bus speeds for the first 7 days in March for 2025 and 2026. I excluded express buses and scheduled subway substitutions that had only 2 stops.Here are the Before Results (1-7 March 2025): VRM: 675,518.05 (total vehicle-revenue-miles) VRH: 71,108.88 (total vehicle-revenue-hours) Stops: 3,576,789 (total stop intervals) Trips: 56,200 (total trips) Avg MPH: 9.50 (avg speed VRM/VRH) Avg Stop Dist (ft): 997.2 (avg stop distance 5280 * VRM/Stops) Here are the After Results (1-7 March 2026): VRM: 679,403.69 VRH: 73,982.51 Stops: 2,457,745 Trips: 56,911 Avg MPH: 9.18 Avg Stop Dist (ft): 1459.6 This decrease has been accomplished with more trips, revenue miles and revenue hours. The NTD recorded the MTA's bus operating cost at $300/VRH for 2024 (the latest figure). This means the MTA spent about $862K more in operations during the week using the Redesign schedule than for the old one. |
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