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Re: Queens Bus Redesign After 1 Year |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Jun 25 15:50:31 2026, in response to Re: Queens Bus Redesign After 1 Year, posted by BusMgr on Thu Jun 25 14:19:47 2026. after so many bus stops were pulled, for the purpose of increasing average speeds, the average speed has decreased.Average bus speed is not a very good measure of a bus system's usefulness. It was seized by advocacy groups because it corroborates the assertion that MTA bus service is the slowest in the country. The average speed measure has also been adopted by MTA management, so we're stuck with it. A more useful measure would be the average trip duration. That's the quotient of the average trip length (miles) divided by the speed. The average NYC bus trip distance is among the shortest in the country. The average trip duration measure places MTA bus operation in the top third among US operations. That doesn't rate headlines, so advocacy groups haven't adopted it. The relation between bus stop spacing and average bus speed, among bus operators, is tenuous at best. Operators in several large cities have a shorter average distance between stops but show higher average bus speeds. I gave a talk about this disconnect at the 2022 NYC Transportation Camp. I also suggested a much better bus speed prediction parameter. Unfortunately, this parameter implied that MTA bus service is less frequent than other operators, when weighted by demand. The solution would be to increase service. That's not the type of solution that a cash strapped management wants to hear. |
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