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Posted by Michael549 on Wed Jun 24 14:10:59 2015, in response to Re: M to West 4th on Weekends/Late Nights, posted by Joe V on Wed Jun 24 13:46:08 2015. If the weekend ridership on the subways was the same amounts of ridership during the weekdays - a good case could be made for having the same weekday route patterns on the weekends.Then you'd could have your B-trains, your M-trains, your #6 and #7 express trains, another routes running on the weekends. If the pure cost of the whole enterprise were ZERO, and buying new robot-controlled trains were as simple picking them up from the local Walmart - as many things could be done. If there were huge worms that could create subway sized tunnels through the bedrock of NYC, and the worms just ate the rats in the tunnels for food - so many new easily built lines could be created. It is a fantasy world, but so what! The real historical truth is that there ARE FEWER riders on the weekends, and much less ridership during the midnight hours. Meaning a corresponding reduction in services - on weekends and midnight hours. The truth is that trains need maintenance and repair, subway stations need to be cleaned. There are times when the trains are not filled with riders stuffed like sardines. At times there are fewer riders - just a plain truth. Since there are less riders on the weekends or midnight hours, there has to be a balancing act of what to offer, shuttles, transfers, etc. We simply do not have robot trains, or robot-controlled automated systems that fix and clean the trains, repairs the tracks & stations. Not everybody can always get what they want all the time. Mike |
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