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Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k) |
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Posted by Hank Eisenstein on Fri Jun 3 12:21:22 2011, in response to Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k), posted by Osmosis Jones on Fri Jun 3 11:37:16 2011. Back it up? Sure I can. You're running a route to Perth Amboy not from a park and ride, or a major transfer point, but from Richmond Memorial Hospital. It touches no major population areas on Staten Island.You've got a route that essentially duplicates the existing 74, and serves the mall. No reason for this with the ease or transfers at Arthur Kill and Richmond. You're running a route from Midland Beach to West Shore Plaza via CSI and the Mall. Your route takes turns even cooked spaghetti wouldn't follow. You adjust the 74 so it actually gets further away from potential passengers who would use it. You're running the 59 to the Ferry for no good reason, given your extension of the 46 in your fantasy. You extend the 61 to the Eltingville Transit Center (which is really in Greenridge, but I digress...) when there's no destination on the route that can't be reached by existing routes that stop there. You zig-zag a local bus on residential streets that aren't suited for regular local bus service. And again, this duplicates nearby services. You extend a route that was established to serve a particular group of commuters to a destination that can already be reached by another route with the same origination point, and other routes that already exist. You don't take into account what streets on Staten Island are actually suitable for bus service; you don't take into account what the actual ridership demographics are on the south shore; and you connect points that are either already connected via other means or have no demand whatsoever for such service. |
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