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Re: Middle Village and Maspeth NIMBYs come out to oppose IBX |
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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Nov 11 22:54:20 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 17:50:50 2025. The basic principle of building transit services is not just to service existing patterns, but to invent new ones.Building transit services should result in increasing total ridership. Providing alternate service to areas that are already saturated with transit does not increase total ridership. It merely re-arranges the deck chairs on the Titanic. There are two ways by which building transit services can increase total ridership. The first is to build it to an area where it does not exist. The walking distance service for the proposed IBX stations is nearly twice as well served by transit than the City. The second way is to provide service between areas where there's a latent demand, as documented by travel between these areas by modes other than transit. The publicly available trip datasets don't show such a latent demand exists. |
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