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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Dec 16 04:22:22 2017, in response to Re: FastTrack nonsense., posted by randyo on Fri Dec 15 17:29:07 2017. I use Bus-Time to note that "the bus is coming." The number of "minutes away" is a best guess but it is better to be at the bus time.On Staten Island, when either the S40 or S44 says that it is a half-mile away, or 1 or 2 miles away - depending upon the time of day determines whether one has RUN at break-neck speed for the bus stop, or take a leisurely walk. During the late evening or nights, or early mornings on a weekend any indication that the bus is 1 or 2 miles away means it is time to get to the bus stop. An indication that the bus is 2-minutes away or a half-mile could easily mean that one has missed the bus. The buses do move quickly on Staten Island. RUSH HOURS - an indication that the bus is a half-mile, 1 or 2 miles away means a leisurely walk to the bus stop. ---- On the subways - the time clocks are simply a suggestion of when the train will arrive. There was a recent newspaper article - that on the letter lines - the train time indicators are a "best guess" about the train since it left its last stop. Of course this is except for the L-train. Any notice that the train is 2-minutes away simply means "stay on the platform - there's a train coming." ---- Remember the days when "we" simply happy to KNOW that a train is actually coming soon! That way we could stop "rubber necking" - looking down the tracks or up the street for service? Remember when the tracks would creak well before a train approached? That was before the welded rails. ---- Last Saturday, Mom and I attempted a trip to the mall using the S40 bus that involved a transfer to another bus. We had just missed the 10:30am bus out of the ferry and the next bus was supposed to be 11am bus out of the ferry. We live a few stops away from the ferry so "tracking the buses on street" is not that hard. The 11am bus never arrived - as in it never left the ferry. The Bus-Time app that I used simply indicated that the next bus was the 11:30am after it finished it current in-coming trip to the ferry and would turn around for an out-bound trip. The next day, Sunday, Mom and I were on Forest Avenue with a lot of other shoppers waiting for a bus at 10:47am S48 bus that never arrived - leaving everyone waiting close to 30 minutes for the next bus on a freezing morning. There was an electronic bus time post that simply and repeatedly indicated when pressed that there was "No Information" about the next bus, and to try again later. ---- If one is at 49th Street and Seventh Avenue (the Times Square area) and claims to be a transit fan how could they not know that the #1 50th Street station is just up the block on Broadway? Why is a walk down to 42nd Street-Times Square "required?" Plus at many of the N-W-R-Q train stations this week there were posted signs right outside the steps to the stations. I don't understand. Mike |
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