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Posted by BusMgr on Mon Apr 18 14:09:47 2022, in response to Re: Why 2 Terminals for Q1?, posted by Snilcher on Mon Apr 18 10:57:14 2022. That crosstown routes in eastern Queens would not connect with the subway illustrates the even larger issue that such routes do not connect anything. In the route development era, this was all farmland with no commercial centers . . . routes were generally laid out east-west so as to get to and from commercial centers, and to the extent that some operated a short distance on, say, Springfield Boulevard it was in the context of a route that, as a whole, operated east-west. Today these routes are helpful to the extent that they (1) provide access, even if not very good access, to the infill areas that were previously farms, and (2) provide a time-saver for the relatively few people that are traveling peripherally. But in designing such routes it is important to recognize that they will not perform well. They provide service for policy reasons (typically service coverage), rather than meeting a particular defined need, and will be a financial drain on the system. |
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