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Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains |
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Posted by LRG5784 on Wed Jun 1 22:51:15 2011, in response to Re: MTA Bus Ridership Dwindles As Subway Gains, posted by dkupf on Wed Jun 1 21:11:22 2011. Ridership on the Staten Island bus routes have increased since the 1990s. The S79 is a prime example; frequency outside of rush hours was every half hour; now service outside of rush hours is every ten minutes and is the second heaviest-used bus route in Staten Island.Thing is, with the S55 and S56, they are glorified versions of school buses, as someone on here said. They run every 30 minutes and that does not include the school runs when school is in session, but they are the lowest-used bus routes that have not been discontinued in 2010. Bus routes get altered, frequencies get increased and bus types even change to respond to demand in the community for the service. The S44's old routing was between Saint George and Port Richmond but was rerouted to the Staten Island Mall; the S79 was rerouted to Brooklyn, and the S59 served Tottenville during the daytime (although Tottenville S59 service has significantly been reduced since the 1990s to run along Hylan Boulevard during rush hours, it still provides help to the S78 in the sectors between Eltingville and Tottenville. If the S56 didn't run the way it did, which is garbage, the route could be improved by extending it to Charleston along a corridor that never had access to public transportation before. Bloomingdale Road didn't have public transportation until the S55 was extended. There is room for improvement with the Staten Island bus network but the MTA is not doing anything to make it better other than just waste money on implementing +Select Bus Service on the S79 which really does not need it. |
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