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Posted by Terrapin Station on Tue Nov 22 12:54:13 2011, in response to Re: How the MTA is Destroying the Local Bus System, posted by Osmosis Jones on Tue Nov 22 00:52:50 2011. How is he completely wrong? I didn't say he was. But now that you mention it, he probably was pretty close to completely wrong. Some of his points did make sense, BrooklynBus does know what he's talking about when it comes to certain things from his perspective as a former operations planning figure. I don't think any of Edwards' points made sense. Sure BrooklynBus knows some stuff, but he puts a lot of stuff he doesn't know and/or is wrong about into his blog posts. And Edwards didn't say he was a former operations planning figure. Edwards instead made several statements strongly implying that he has no idea about BrooklynBus's history. Almost everything Edwards wrote in that post was incorrect or based on incorrect information. He also has every right to bash the MTA in all the opinion pieces he wants based on his experience. We're not disputing "rights". We're disputing if what BrooklynBus is writing makes any sense, is intelligent, and is based on facts, logic, and reason. I see some people saying that this was supposed to be a news article, yet the very beginning of the article says "Allan Rosen discusses, in Part 1, the back-story and success of the 1978 Southwest Brooklyn bus route changes, and why this is how the MTA should do its bus route planning", implying that it was an opinion piece all along. I'm disputing whether his "opinions" make any sense, are intelligent, and are based on facts, logic, and reason. For example, someone can have the opinion that the M42 is a fast bus route and does its job well. But if all the facts and logic and reasoning say that the route has an average speed that is well below the average for all Manhattan local bus routes, then that opinion is flawed at best and just plain wrong at worst. Because you disagree with him, or because he "seriously" gets facts wrong? The latter. Or a combination of the two. He might use a fact to draw an illogical conclusion. That makes him wrong. And I would disagree with his conclusion, even if it was an opinion, because he misused the facts. I ask him about Brooklyn service changes that happened in the past sometimes and his answers to those questions are usually spot on. First of all, how do you know his answer is correct? How do you know it doesn't just sound good? Second of all, sure, he might be able to answer basic questions. But in these articles and in many of his posts on this forum, he fails to use logic and reasoning and/or misuses facts. All the while he acts like he knows everything because he worked for DCP and NYCT. At the very least, he shouldn't act like he knows what's best. He should act like he has an informed opinion that could provide a good alternative to a certain problem. But even then he'd be lying since his opinions and alternatives are often really bad. How? I looked up previous posts and he said that he retired on his own terms from the MTA, unless he was forced to resign? So which is it? And why isn't he still working there? And if he did leave on his own terms, why did he do so? These are questions you should be asking him, because they could certainly be very relevant to why he writes what he writes. I also found out that apparently the MTA utilized some of the ideas he came up with after he left the MTA, but are you sure that no one listened to him rather than no one was able to implement his ideas for whatever reasons that had nothing to do with him personally? IIRC he has made many posts talking about the problems he had getting anything done while he was working at NYCT. Sure he got some things done, but by his own admission he had a very tough time. And if the issue was not with him personally and/or the quality of his ideas, then why has he himself admitted that no current transit executives will respond to his emails and that the Operations Planning department deletes his emails without even reading them? The man himself admits/claims that the MTA doesn't like him and won't/wouldn't do what he wanted and he in turn takes the opportunity to bash them left and right. You don't see a possible connection? |
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