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Re: Plan to change transportation Western Queens: Extend Q19/39/67/103/104/Cut Q102; New Q105 & BK-LGA |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Mon Oct 13 14:12:47 2014, in response to Re: Plan to change transportation Western Queens: Extend Q19/39/67/103/104/Cut Q102; New Q105 & BK-LGA, posted by BusMgr on Mon Oct 13 03:14:20 2014. It is not theory that the City of New York is in charge of transportation planning for NYC. It is a fact. And the agency in charge of that planning is te Department of City Planning (DCP) where I once worked, not the Department of Transportation. The fact is also that the Department of City Planning has shirked at responsibility for the past 35 years concentrating primarily on zoning issues.I am elated that DCP is getting back into transportation planning because the MTA is not doing a proper job. DCP takes need and economic factors in the best interest of the city into consideration. The MTA, on the other hand, only considers its own passengers, and has no interest in attracting passengers who currently use cabs or vans due to inadequacies in the local bus network. You are also incorrect in stating the NYCTA (which exists only for legal reasons) Is subordinate to the city. It is the NYCT and MTA Bus, both subsidiaries of the MTA and the state that does planning. The City has no say in their planning. Back in the 1970s, DCP was engaged in many transportation studies, obtaining funds through federal grants. The MTA greatly resented that and vowed after 1980, to apply and obtain federal funds for planning purposes, preventing DCP from doing further studies and greatly expanded their planning talent. To state that no talent exists outside of the MTA is just wrong. The MTA will resist any attempts at major expansion of bus routes, because unlike DCP which has the best interests oft he city as its goal, the MTA's goal is to reduce operating expenses by decreasing revenue miles without any consideration of the relationship between operating costs, increased services, and increased revenue. |
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