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Re: Queens Bus Redesign After 1 Year |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Thu Jun 25 16:09:54 2026, in response to Re: Queens Bus Redesign After 1 Year, posted by Bill from Maspeth on Thu Jun 25 13:34:36 2026. I have a rather narrow focus for my bus studies. I believe they are more related to passenger service than to operational efficiency.buses are actually deadheading between Ridgewood and Casey Stengel depot. That is a lot of unnecessary mileage. I did note that MTA bus operations are the most expensive in the US. The $/VRH figure is in the neighborhood of $300/hr. That's nearly 50% higher than the $200/VRH national average for other large US operators. This comes to around $1.2B per year in higher operating costs for MTA bus operations. This figure has been pretty constant for 25 years. This means there's enough room to implement Mamdani's free bus fare plan. I don't favor the plan because it would provide an economic incentive to use the most expensive transit mode. The MTA released a new database that includes many non-revenue moves, as opposed to the GTFS. I have not used it. I've got a backlog of studies so that I'm not likely to use it in the near future. I did compare the ratio the MTA's VRH to total vehicle hours. The latter figure includes total time between departure and arrival back at the depot. That ratio is lower for MTA bus operations than most large operators in the US. |
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