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Posted by BrooklynBus on Sat May 28 22:07:46 2011, in response to Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains, posted by dkupf on Sat May 28 03:46:01 2011. David, just for the record, a few corrections to what you just said.The proposals from my master's thesis involved all of Brooklyn. The proposals from City Planning only involved Southwest Brooklyn. While some of the City Planning Proposals may have resembled some from my Master's thesis, they were definitely not the same. Modifications were made resulting from Origin / Destination survey data of 8,000 riders. The MTA accepted only about 25% of the proposals, not half. Several of my 1972 proposals were also adopted years later simply because they were so obvious, except that it took took the MTA many years longer to coincidentally come to the same conclusions. They had no idea that I also proposed for example: extending the B61 to Long Island City, extending the B38 to Metropolitan Avenue; extending the B57 down to 9th Street to replace the B75 and extending the B77 along 9th Street (which became the B61) which was finally done last year. I was hired by the Department of Buses (then called Surface) not transfered to it. I was transfered to Operations Planning and then to a number of other departments during my 25 year career. I never worked for MetroCard Operations. At the NYMTC presentation which I wish had been recorded, the MTA representative actually came over to me privately and congratulated me on a job well-done. (He left the MTA a few months later.) It was the representatives NYCT Operations Planning who were furious and were pacing around nervously. |
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