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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Jun 15 22:46:43 2021, in response to Re: Anti-car democrats are a road hazard, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Jun 15 14:25:44 2021. “As I explained before, automobiles caused buses and streetcars to run slow. As the population of New York City grew, traffic grew, but public transportation didn't grow with it including the bus system where you have routes like the B43 which awkwardly and abruptly turns down Empire Boulevard in Lefferts Gardens because of a baseball stadium that has been gone for over 6 decades.”True about streetcars, but not buses. Buses and streetcars both gained popularity at the same time, in the 1920s, so cars did not slow down buses. You could just as easily say buses slowed down cars. As far as the B43, formerly the B47, that’s why I proposed as early as 1973 in my masters thesis that it be extended south to Kings County Hospital and its Empire Blvd service replaced with a service covering the whole street. That was nearly 50 years ago and no closer to happening now than it was then, because the MTAs interest is not in improving the bus system, but in saving operating expenses. They figure out the additional operating expenses and assume no one will use the new service. That’s what they actually told me. They said if anyone uses it, they consider it gravy. No wonder the system is what it is. And you think things will ever change? |
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