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Re: Not good for transit ... New York has nation's lowest office occupancy rate |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Fri Nov 20 07:11:36 2020, in response to Re: Not good for transit ... New York has nation's lowest office occupancy rate, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Thu Nov 19 09:46:46 2020. There will always be some people, especially in North America, for whom the only acceptable mode of commuting is in their private automobile, and that's no matter what the coverage and frequency and cleanliness of public transit. They have predetermined that public transit is always bad.In most other cases, pre-pandemic the current system was getting the job done in NYC with the possible exception of the most remote parts of the city. As of 2019 I felt that when I used the system (all different places, all different times) I had at least a 95% chance of getting to where I was going within 10 minutes of when I expected to get there (based on timetables, Google Maps research, knowledge of planned changes, etc.), and only maybe a 1% chance (at most) of having a significant disruption to my day's plans because I got unexpectedly stuck somewhere mid-trip. (The other 4% being somewhere in the middle) IMO existing transportation infrastructure in North America is so car-centric that to me it's not so much that transit agencies are bad (although they certainly can be) as it is that they have such a steep hill to climb, almost insurmountable, if the plan is to get people out of their cars. |
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