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Posted by Michael549 on Mon Jun 29 23:19:49 2015, in response to Re: M to West 4th on Weekends/Late Nights, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Jun 29 22:01:16 2015. Look at this issue another way for a moment.FUNDS ARE NOT UN-LIMITED! I admit that I do not KNOW just how much it costs to run a train line, but we can easily surmise that train operators, rail-road clerks, conductors, dispatch personnel, train yard personnel and maintenance folks are needed. Admittedly some operations or staffed positions will be "baseline" in that the position or activity will need to be staffed 24/7/365 - railroad clerks, train operators and conductors needed for each train, a certain number of dispatchers or office staff, etc. There will have to be a number of persons working "behind the scenes" even on the weekends to make the whole operation run smoothly. At the same time - there are a certain number of positions or activities that depend upon the numbers of riders using the system. When there's more riders - more of these kinds of persons or activities are needed. When there's less riders fewer of these kinds of persons or activities are needed. Pure basic financial analysis type stuff to figure out - and I'm sure that the MTA has that kind of stuff figured out. My bottom line point is simple - choices have to be made where to spend the limited dollars that you have available - because money does not grow on trees. There's a certain amount of service expected and beneficial for the good of the many - given the amount of funds available. At a certain point - certain things become "not affordable." Where are you going to spend your limited money? We have 3 lines running on the westside IRT, 3 lines running on the eastside IRT, 3 lines running on the 8th Avenue line, 3 lines running on Queens Blvd, 2 lines running on 6th Ave, 3 lines running on the BMT-Broadway, 3 lines running on the 4th Avenue, 2 lines running on Fulton Street (plus a full-time shuttle), and 3 lines running on Brooklyn IRT. Do each of the Manhattan mainlines have weekend express service - Yes! One Queens mainline and 3 Brooklyn mainlines have weekend express service. Zero weekend express service in the Bronx or on Staten Island. Then are are the basic single routes - #7, the L-train, the G-train, the J-train (with an extended shuttle), 1-line on the Brighton line, the SIR, etc. Unless I've missed something. What you're now proposing is additional service on Sixth Avenue to Queens. It is easy to scream that "you want more." It is not so easy when there are trade-offs and hard decisions to be made. - because there's only so much money. Now if you're going to argue that more riders will result from your increased activity - therefore being able to support more. Just how do you spend your new found money when it is in places like the Bronx on the D-train, or on lines like the #1, #2, and #3 that are getting the steady growths in ridership? Isn't it a good idea to spend more/provide more resources in the places that are generating the added riders? As I've already shown, that while the M-train has been growing in ridership there are other places with much greater substantial amounts of growing ridership on the weekends. Shouldn't those places benefit? Mike |
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