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Posted by BrooklynBus on Tue Mar 13 19:12:02 2007, in response to Re: It Finally Happenned: Q35 Limited Stops, posted by David of Broadway on Tue Mar 13 13:43:39 2007. Deliveries can be restricted by time. Imagine how much smoother traffic flow (for buses and cars alike) would be if deliveries took place overnight.You struck a sore note. I've been saying that for 20 years. It works great in Europe, but the stores here don't want to pay extra, and the politicians don't want to go against them. The Fulton Mall which took 17 years to plan was supposed to greatly speed the buses on a previously traffic clogged street. The plan was to widen the sidewalks for pedestrians (needed in this case, because the sidewalks were also very clogged with people), eliminate cars (okay). restrict nightime deliveries to after 7PM and create off street indented loading bays to keep the single lane (reduced from two lanes) open. So what happened? After agreeing to this, when it finally came time to put into effect, the merchants refused to accept nightime deliveries. So deliveries are made during the day (from Day 1) in the loading bays and in the one lane supposedly for traffic. So the buses frequently have to use the opposing lane to get around slowing everyone down. Also, any official vehicle (regular police, mail police, sanitation police, EPA Police, etc) mail trucks public and private, TA maintenance vehicles and cars, etc thinks they have a right to use the Fulton Mall adding to the traffic which was supposed to be solely for buses. The result, Fulton Mall is not much faster than it was prior to the mall being built. Any savings to bus travel times is negated by the increased traffic on Livingston St which also carries a large number of bus routes. Seventeen years of planning and net result is no improvement. I can't stand when there is all this hoopla how great transit projects will be. Then they flop because promises aren't kept. Hope this doesn't happen with BRT by someone changing their mind and deciding to charge a premium fare for the service and riders not patronizing it. |
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