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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Sun Nov 8 00:17:24 2009, in response to Re: Yankees Parade = Staten Island Transit Disaster, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Sat Nov 7 23:29:57 2009. From 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...All that should matter is that it's bad by NYC standards. The way they run things out in Long Island has nothing to do with Staten Island and it's transportation issues! 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. In order for Staten Island to grow above the 500K pop. mark, it absolutely needs a new rail connection to SI. The Yankees Parade exemplified that because everything transit-related came to a near halt and that's with only SI's 475K population. Thousands of Staten Islanders who only normally ride the express bus or drive, took mass transit that day and it was miserable trying to get to/from SI. And that's with 475K people. It really shown how lacking SI's transit network is. I could not imagine how much worse it could be with a 500K+ population. There's a reason why the city invested in a Transportation Task Force for Staten Island and that's because the transit sucks and they finally realized it! If the city doesn't step up even further though, I wouldn't be surprised if there is another secession movement. |
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