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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Sat Jun 4 15:20:25 2011, in response to Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k), posted by hank eisenstein on Sat Jun 4 07:03:08 2011. Generally, in urban areas, the idea is to have the system as grid-like as possible: You have a bunch of east-west routes and north-south routes, and you run them as frequently as possible, so transferring is relatively easy.A system trying to serve every single area with a one-seat ride isn't going to work anywhere. Either the system has ridership that is too low to support it, or the system has high enough ridership to support the services, but it would make the system too complex. I do disagree with your statements about the North and South Shores. The North Shore has seen a decent amount of growth, and transit-wise, a lot of that growth is in transit-dependent people. Even on the South Shore, a lot of the growth has been in townhouses and things like that. While most of those people do have a car, they have fewer cars than the people on the South Shore have traditionally had: Meaning that the family has a car, but when two members need to travel at the same time, one of the people will have to use transit. |
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