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Posted by Osmosis Jones on Sat Jun 4 00:38:11 2011, in response to Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k), posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Fri Jun 3 14:19:38 2011. It covers a lot more areas & it wouldn't hurt to have two bus lines running on the same street (S73 & S74 on richmond road & S77/S78 on Hylan Blvd for example) as long as the scheduling works. If there's better coverage and less transferring involved then more people would ride the buses.Exactly. The purpose of the S73 is to give Richmondtown a local bus, replace the S57 along Amboy Road (in my scenario), give Stapleton and the Richmond Road corridor a bus to the mall, and to give Richmond Road riders a comfortable, faster, and more reliable ride since the S74 would no longer serve Broad Street, which often packs the S74 and slows it down. The purpose of the S77 isn't as meaningful. It's to give Tompkins Avenue a faster ride to the ferry since my fantasy S78 would go up the faster Bay Street, and to encourage bus ridership along Giffords Lane by giving them a bus to the Ferry (although few would probably take it to the ferry given its circuitous nature), New Dorp Shopping Area, Greenridge Shopping Area, Eltingville Transit Center, and the Mall. I noticed that not a lot of people along Giffords Lane use the S54, and thought that the fact that it practically goes nowhere would be the reason for that. The S44/S94 would do better if it ended at West Shore Plaza and have the S40/S90 terminate at Gothaels Rd instead with the S48. If you want the SI Mall you would have either Castleton Avenue or Richmond Terrace which is better because the SI Mall needs more & faster access from all over the Island instead of a couple of routes & having to transfer. Thanks for the suggestion. I wanted to send the S40 to West Shore Plaza to encourage Teleport workers to ride the bus by giving them a faster ride to the ferry, but that ideal might be a stretch. The S44 could really go anywhere, but I just chose Goethals Homes because I thought that people in the area around the Mariners Harbor Houses would like a bus to the movie theater area the most. |
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