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Re: How the MTA is Destroying the Local Bus System |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Wed Nov 23 15:59:56 2011, in response to Re: How the MTA is Destroying the Local Bus System, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Nov 23 15:08:27 2011. Unless the reason they are riding the SBS is because local service has deteriorated because of the implementation of SBS so people are walking four or five extra blocks to the SBS because they see them coming one after the other while 15 minutes has passed and there is no local bus so they reluctantly ride the SBS. So you even though you've never experienced this yourself and have only heard it from riders, you are using it as a reason to argue against SBS? That's ridiculous. The few times I have used SBS, I did not experience this problem. Why don't you STUDY the issue before simply taking the "riders" for their word and knocking the existing SBS lines as well as knocking future SBS lines? While this forum seems to overwhelmingly favor SBS, users of SBS on other forums are not so gung ho over the project. Many oppose it. I consider myself somewhat in the middle. Such as the forum of sophisticated bus riders? Success may be defined to the degree the facility is actually used when talking about baseball stadiums or the like. It is not so clear cut in Planning. There is success for the operator and there is success for the user. The two are not synonymous. Obviously the public agency/operator is looking to either make money, break even, or lose as little money as possible (i.e. require the smallest subsidy possible) all while best fulfilling its mission of meeting the needs of its customers w.r.t providing transportation services. "Success", as the knowledgeable people use it, means that both the customers' needs are met and the operator's needs are met. |
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