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Posted by checkmatechamp13 on Sun Jun 5 19:44:53 2011, in response to Re: Staten Island Fantasy Map (56k), posted by Osmosis Jones on Sun Jun 5 19:00:51 2011. 1) Cutting the S54 back to Seaview Hospital (I would extend it to Eltingville every 30 minutes rush hours only) would just be to save money, which could be used to restore weekend service on the S54. I would try to increase ridership by extending it to St. George, giving Manor Road residents direct access to St. George and generating additional ridership and revenue.2) I don't really think you'll attract too many North Shore riders just by giving them a bus to the SIR. The distance from Princes' Bay to the really transit-dependant parts is already pretty long (a good 30 minute ride on the SIR, not counting the time spent waiting), so any transfer to a bus is already a turnoff for using transit. 3) Great minds think alike. I was thinking the same thing: The S89 should replace the S59 in that area except for trippers. As far as student ridership north of the SI Mall, I would say that both it and the S89 have a fairly large percentage of student riders. You see the difference in the loads before and after it reaches the schools on the routes. For example, my brother takes the S59 to go to his middle school (by Rockland Avenue), and he says that the bus can go from almost completely crushloaded to just having a few standees after it leaves the stop. And the thing is that a lot of the people remaining are students going to schools further south (those schools by the SI Mall, Tottenville High School, and St. Josephs By the Sea). During the PM rush hour, I sometimes see it go by and it has a seated load, maybe with a few standees, so it shows that the ridership is womewhat decent (higher than other routes with the "high student ridership" label), but students still make up a very large portion of the ridership. 4) I wanted the S93 to take Victory Blvd to Richmond Avenue, take Richmond Avenue to Goethals Road North, and then take Goethals Road North to South Avenue. Going back, it would take South Avenue to Fahy Avenue (which turns into Lamberts Lane), and then take Richmond Avenue to Victory Blvd (use Google Maps if you're not sure about what the route would look like). I figured the S93 would be a better choice than a route to St. George because there are already a bunch of routes to St. George, but not that many to Brooklyn. By the way, I also had a plan to operate some Saturday service on the S93 by taking the S62 runs that terminate at CSI and turning them into S93 runs. |
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