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Re: My idea for the BxM4 |
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Posted by 9 local on Mon Oct 23 14:58:34 2006, in response to Re: My idea for the BxM4, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 23 01:07:23 2006. Gold Metrocard came out many years ago enabling transfer from the subway to the bus. You can get off the 4 or D train and use your Gold Metrocard to transfer to a bus going up Katonah Avenue FOR FREE. It's a brilliant idea, but you seem to have forgotten about it. In fact, Blue Metrocard and tokens don't even EXIST anymore! The BxM4 is basically a combination of the 5th/Madison Limited bus, and the Bx1/2 Limited. Those two routes do not need to be combined. Oh, and buses do not relieve subway lines. As has been said many times, the capacity of one subway CAR greatly exceeds that of an MCI D4500CT or an MCI Classic. The capacity of one subway train is the same as the capacity of 80 express buses, and since the subway runs MUCH more frequently than the express bus, and is 3 bucks cheaper, there is no point in having any express run that duplicates a subway, even if there is a branch that goes away from the subway line: as I said before, you can always make a transfer from the subway to a local bus. |
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