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Posted by Michael549 on Sat Nov 7 17:29:22 2009, in response to Re: Yankees Parade = Staten Island Transit Disaster, posted by 5301 Fishbowl on Sat Nov 7 08:25:34 2009. Prior the mid-1970's, under Mayor Koch, the frequencies of the day-time and early evening boats was a boat every 20 minutes, and the mid-night schedule of boats was a boat every 30 minutes. (The rush hour schedule was much more generous, but then the two largest boats did not exist.)The city's fiscal crisis in the mid-1970's brought about stories in the papers and TV media about "empty midnight ferries". Remember "Ford To City - Drop Dead" and other headlines. So then Mayor Koch for a six-month period ended all midnight hour ferries from 12-midnight to 6am. Where then riders to/from Staten Island had to take a bus from Staten Island to the end of the RR-train in Brooklyn. At the time, in an editorial the New York Times called the whole affair a disgrace for the city - in leaving an entire borough without any real effective means of travel. When Mayor Koch restored the ferry service, where during the day-time, and evening hours where there were three boats an hour it became two boats - one every 30 minutes; where there were two hours an hour it became 1-boat an hour - one every 60 minutes. Since then generally except for the rush hours, the 30 minute waits for a boat were day-times, early evenings, weekend afternoons. The sixty minute waits for boats were the weekday and weekend midnight hours, early weekend mornings, and weekend evenings after 7 or 7:30pm. It is very rare for the ferry operators to add boats to the schedule when something is happening - except for some holidays. The usual practice over the years has been to provide a larger boat (if the manpower existed). Often however if there were any problems with the ferries, the usual practice that one can count on without even having to be there, is that the ferry operators will CUT SERVICE, leaving folks waiting as always for the boats. In addition, as usual there will be no information when the service will be started again, and few alternatives for travel. The penalty of Staten Island continues. Mike |
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