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Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains |
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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Sat May 28 00:37:58 2011, in response to Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains, posted by Hank EisenStein on Fri May 27 05:06:59 2011. If you take transit on a regular basis, you time your trips; people aren't going to start their trip PLANNING to wait 15 minutes for a service that runs on a schedule; they're going to plan their trip for the shortest wait time that's reasonable without potentially missing their connection.It's still inconvenient if you live that far away, especially on a route like the S74 where drivers don't really care about the schedule as much as they want to get the nearly 20-mile trip over with. I'm not saying anything about the 40; I'm saying the only way to make the 54 more of an attractive route is to send it to the ferry. No one would ride the S54 to St. George from Manor Road, it would operate primarily as an unnecessary supplement to the S40. I only included the high school, but there are also a few shopping centers along Guyon, and at Amboy Rd within a few hundred feet of Guyon, that make this slightly more necessary. I don't foresee a bus route along Amboy. The SIR is always withing 1/4 of a mile of Amboy (which crosses the ROW three times between Bay Terrace and Pleasant Plains) and at most stations west of Nassau, you can SNEEZE on Amboy Rd from the platform. The TA just eliminated several routes that duplicated subway service in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. I don't see them adding a route that does just that. New Dorp Lane plus the two huge shopping malls on Hylan Boulevard are much more attractive destinations. |
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