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Re: Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Oct 1 11:38:49 2024, in response to Re: Brooklyn Bus Network Redesign, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Tue Oct 1 11:06:36 2024. In 1981, when Bus Operations Planning, then known as Surface, was separate from Rapid Transit Operations Planning. I headed the Surface Operations Planning Department (which was separate from Surface Scheduling, and Surface Transportation which handled day to day operations. I was charged with completing the Brooklyn Transit Service Sufficiency Study, whose mission was to redesign the entire Brooklyn bus system with a staff of only 12 people. It would have been successfully completed it if I was allowed to complete it if I was not sabatoged by my own boss when we were merged in July 1981 with Rapid Transit Operations Planning to become Operations Planning with a staff of 35.My staff was reduced to five. I had developed a plan to change about half the bus routes and began the process of going out to the communities when my boss insisted that for each proposal, I develop five alternative proposals and prepare separate proposals for each community board which was totally unrealistic. After I did all that and he was ready to go out to the communities, I told him the proposals no longer made any sense and I would not put my name on the plan. I was then replaced. So to answer your question. When Operations Planning added Surface and Rapid Schedules and day to day functions, its staff increased to over 300. If I was expected to complete this task with a staff of five and could have done it, why should Operations Planning need consultants today? |
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