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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Nov 7 23:29:57 2009, in response to Re: Yankees Parade = Staten Island Transit Disaster, posted by Easy on Sat Nov 7 18:00:30 2009. The public transportation on Staten Island is badFrom what I remember, it's bad by NYC standards, but by Long Island Bus standards, it's rather generous. Isn't it basically buses with 20 minute headways and SIR with two tph off-peak? In my little quaint section of Nassau County, my local bus route runs 1 bus per hour with no supplemental peak service, and it ends at 7 PM... If you want better public transportation why not move to another area of the city whose location and density allows it? Or even New Jersey? I've jokingly said that Staten Island is home to NYC's white population that for some reason or another must remain in the city for residency requirements or some other reason, but can't afford more expensive areas like Bayside or Riverdale. Otherwise, they're left with older (and smaller) single family housing stock in mixed race or mostly black areas, or fake residency with a permanent residence in the suburbs. One could argue that they want high investment of transit, but without the density that some would argue is needed for sustainable service. Would you spend $10 to $20B to connect an island of 475K residents? I think the best option we're going to get would be a joint MTA-NJT-PANYNJ capital project to extend HBLR into Staten Island, and for the construction of the North Shore Line. |
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