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Posted by hank eisenstein on Sat Jun 4 07:03:08 2011, in response to Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k), posted by Osmosis Jones on Sat Jun 4 05:57:14 2011. I don't have to come up with alternate suggestions to refute your arguments; the reasonable refutation is enough.Duplicate and redundant are nearly synonymous; one means copy, the other repetitious. A lot of your fantasy routes aren't necessary; increasing service frequency on existing routes will accomplish the same thing. The 93 is just as much a grand tour of Staten Island as the 79, only on single lane roads through the north shore, instead of the multi-lane Hylan Blvd along the south and east. The 79 is scheduled for ~60 minutes from Bay Ridge to the mall @ 8am; the 93 is scheduled for ~34 minutes from Bay Ridge to CSI @ 8am. Given the traffic and the heavy loads destined for CSI, the trip via the 93 will probably take an additional 20 minutes, which isn't enough of a time savings to make someone choose one route over the other. You don't understand why Tompkins Ave has two routes serving it, but want to provide multiple routes on other roads that also don't need them. Staten Island is more suburban than urban; the level of service that works in Brooklyn or Queens isn't going to work, or be necessary, on Staten Island. The north shore (the area generally above Victory Blvd and the Staten Island Expressway is well served, and also the area that has more bus riders; less because the service is there and more because most of that area is at or below the average income for Staten Island. This area isn't growing. On the south shore, the income is higher, and transit service is much less of a necessity. This area is growing, but it's not gaining people who will use transit as an alternative to their own cars. Even if the service were available, except for getting to/from their daily jobs, these are not people who will use public transit if they don't want to. You're talking about families of four with four cars, not because they're a necessity, but because they WANT them; where a 17-year-old gets a brand-new Acura or Lexus for their birthday. |
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