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Re: My idea for the BxM4 |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Oct 23 23:32:14 2006, in response to Re: My idea for the BxM4, posted by Osmosis Jones on Mon Oct 23 07:47:45 2006. Express buses are a luxury, and most of them are redundant to other forms of transportation (including most of the SI expresses)Someone's willing to pay for the luxury. If the buses were running empty, then there would be a huge superfluity thereupon, and such things don't go unnoticed by bus company bean-counters. the reason why they have a frequent schedule is because of passenger demand (well, that's obvious) And it's a hefty argument against their removal. It's a huge political boo-boo to remove a service that has high passenger demand. they don't want to unattract more riders especially since a lot of express bus routes currently have a low amount of passengers per mile traveled (it's not actually called that, but I just find that term less confusing for me) Revenue passenger miles? That might be the term. So their subsidy is high? The BxM-series, as noted, have quite a few trips assigned to them; and they seem to attract passengers at all times of day on the principle of frequency selling. The MTA certainly is the type of agency that would cut service to the bone if you had a dearth of passengers on the express routes. |
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