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Posted by Dupont Circle Station on Sun Jul 4 12:34:53 2010, in response to Re: WhineMATA, posted by Dupont Circle Station on Sun Jul 4 12:16:13 2010. Damn. Hit post instead of preview. Anyway...What I was going to continue with is, we certainly don't want areas cut off from service but the reality has to be accepted that two or three elderly women who rode the streetcar when it was there and only need the bus two times a week is not justification for running an underutilized service along one street, when a few blocks over there are a lot more people who would benefit from service but are told the existing service will have to do. The old "streetcar" routes need to be largely abolished, or at least redesigned to account for the present day's population distribution and usage patterns. There are a lot of people who go downtown or want to connect with the subway. There are also a lot of people who aren't traveling downtown, but rather short distances or a "crosstown" destination that doesn't transit the core. Simply consolidating under-performing routes into a long route screws up service all along the line if something goes awry. The end result is people will avoid taking the bus because of it being unreliable or too slow getting them where they want to go. That means more people who can will take the subway, or use an automobile. |
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