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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Nov 11 16:34:25 2025, in response to Re: Middle Village and Maspeth NIMBYs come out to oppose IBX, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Nov 11 15:25:38 2025. but entirely new travel patterns without first heading to downtown Brooklyn to change radial route.Please back that hypothesis up with actual data. Quantify the latent demand for such travel based on publicly available data and compare it with current travel demand. I have - the numbers don't show such demand. Suggested databases to consult. First, there are subway trip origins and destinations for 2023 and 2024. Here are links to that data. https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Subway-Origin-Destination-Ridership-Estimate-2/uhf3-t34z/about_data https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Subway-Origin-Destination-Ridership-Estimate-2/jsu2-fbtj/about_data Try to find unusually high demand for travel between existing subway stations that would transfer to a proposed IBX station. Second, travel between two points has to have a purpose other than rail fanning. The most important purpose is the journey to work. The census bureau has been tabulating employee household and workplace location combinations since 2002 by census block. Here's the link to the LEHD Census data website. https://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/ Third, many agencies take travel surveys, where families are asked to record all their trips for a certain length of time. The MTA has taken such surveys to determine travel patterns. Their latest survey was taken in 2018. It involved 42K unlinked trips that were recorded between census block groups. The survey then used the demographic data given by the participants and compared it to the census bureau's census block group demographic data. This provided multipliers for the individual trips to provide a valid stratified sample. Here's a link to the MTA's surveys webpage. https://www.mta.info/transparency/surveys Please share any publicly available source data that shows a level of latent demand that justifies building the IBX. The 3 data sources that I cited don't. I believe the IBX is a solution in search of a problem to solve. Its proponents are hard at work trying to manufacture such a problem. |
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