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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Fri Jun 3 11:53:24 2011, in response to Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k), posted by checkmatechamp13 on Thu Jun 2 23:21:39 2011. The reason why the S46 takes the shorter route to Mariners' Harbor is because it takes a long time to travel along certain sections of Castleton Avenue. Castleton Avenue is a fairly busy corridor, so it spends a lot of time loading passengers and stopping at the traffic lights there. I think the better solution would be to shift some buses from the S44 to the S46.I just swapped them for passenger distribution purposes. The S46 is packed by the time it usually reaches Jewett Avenue while the S44 usually has seats available at that point. I think the S48 should continue to serve Arlington, since that would generate more ridership. The only things west of South Avenue are a movie theater, Home Depot, and a trailer park. However, along South Avenue, there are more homes, as well as the Mariners' Harbor Houses and Arlington Terrace Apartments. I wanted to give Forest Avenue one route for its entirety, and make it easier to get to Staten Island's largest movie theater. The S67 would still provide service to Forest Avenue west of Richmond Avenue though, but is that enough? I think the shorter S52 is better suited to serving New Brighton than the longer S44. I wanted the S44 to cover the S42 because it can also serve the Clyde Place-Arnold Street area. I also understand that the S52 not going all the way up to Richmond Terrace anymore hinders its purpose as a cross-island route. The S58 route would get low ridership because of all the time it would spend in the Greenbelt, as well as the circuituous route it would take in New Springville. The S58's purpose is just to make getting across the island at that point easier, and also to connect Midland Beach to the New Dorp shopping area. I figured that people would use it as a "shortcut" to the Mall and College, in addition to Staten Island's only DMV at West Shore Plaza. Maybe it would get better ridership if it served more of Travis? I don't think the S59 detour to CSI is necessary, as it would delay the route too much. I think having all S62 and S93 buses that currently short-turn at CSI extended to Richmond Avenue (or further) would be a better solution to the lack of north-south service to CSI. Passengers going noerthbound don't even save that much time taking the bus, as there is a shortcut to Richmond Avenue along Christopher Lane, which I've found faster to take even if an S62 was approaching. I wanted to reroute the S59 there to finally give the College of Staten Island a north-south bus route, but maybe extended to Eltingville version of the S61/S91 can do that job. Your S71 terminates in the middle of nowhere. A better solution to serve Perth Amboy would be to either split the S74 at the Eltingville Transit Center, and have the western half extended to Perth Amboy, or send the S56 there (yes, it would bypass Tottenville High School, but it would serve Bricktowne, and there could always be S56 trippers from Tottenville H.S.) I wanted the route to fulfill two purposes. One is of course finally providing service to Perth Amboy, while the other is to connect Staten Island University Hospital with the SIR so workers from the North Shore would no longer have to take the slower S78. By the way, what would be the scheduling and span of your routes? Just list the routes that you would change the span of, as well as the new routes that you created (S58, S71, etc) S58: 6AM-11PM all week S67: 5AM-1AM all week S71: 24/7 S73: 24/7 to Richmondtown, 5AM-1AM to Staten Island Mall S77: 6AM-11PM all week |
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