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Posted by J trainloco on Wed Mar 14 21:44:09 2012, in response to Re: The MTA's Misplaced Priorities, posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Mar 13 15:03:10 2012. I read the link you cited. The employee did what he was required to do,push a button to get assistance. The victim wanted more,but he did all that was required and help arrived. The hypothetical situation I stated was a little different. I stated if the Help Point was broken,and if there were no station attendant,help woud have never arrived. So a judge could make a big award if there was a lawsuit. The situations were not comparable.They are totally comparable. What if a booth's communication system was temporarily down? How would that situation be any better/worse than an HPI being down? As pointed out by another poster, bringing wireless communication to subway stations would help the situation, but if someone else was present, they could run elsewhere for help anyway. To be clear, I am not advocating for HPI's to replace SAs. I am questioning the entire argument made by certain members of the public and represented workforce that the presence of SAs makes a station safer. the MTA has an obligation to serve all neighborhoods,not leave some without transit access. Agreed. The question is what is an acceptable level of service. There is no logical rationale to provide service every 5 minutes on a north/south route to Plumb Beach and 20 minute or no service on an east-west route when both routes will only carry a half dozen passengers. That is what the B44 SBS proposes. If you need to go east west,a north/south route does you no good. So then is the answer to provide one east west line and one north south line which will both operate at 15 minute intervals? My point here is that the MTA doesn't have to provide, your words: "half a dozen customers" with one-seat rides in both the east/west and north/south corridors. Maybe the answer is that the entire bus network in that area should be re-organized. Maybe the 4 should replace the 36 in that area and people headed east should take the 44 to the 4. I'm generally of the opinion that bus routes are duplicitous in many areas. In my neighborhood, there are buses running parallel to each other on every street from Classon Ave to Malcolm X Blvd, save for Marcy and Stuyvesant aves. It seems to me that in many areas, the MTA could benefit by eliminating or consolidating routes, but the general consensus is that this is such a terrible inconvenience that it cannot be allowed. "MTA can't cut MY bus!" The 4/44 seems to be another one of those type of issues. |
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