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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Oct 29 10:12:39 2014, in response to Re: More Government Hypocrisy, posted by N6 Limited on Tue Oct 28 18:07:26 2014. Exactly.The only way to determine if more bus passengers are helped than hurt is to consider total travel time for passengers which is more important than total travel time for the bus which is only important to the MTA. My friend recently took the M15 from South Ferry one evening to 79 St and loved it because the trip only took 33 minutes and she saved the transfer from the train to the bus. She said she would never ride the SBS during the day, however. Those are the people it helps. People taking 5 mile or more bus trips. However the typical average local bus trip is only 2.3 miles. Those people complain about the irregular service on SBS. The long waits combined with the extra walking may save them only a minute or two or could take them five minutes longer. Then you also have to consider that those using the street other than buses have increased travel times due to lower roadway capacity. That has also been ignored. On the S79, it was shown that auto travel times increased by 10 percent not only on Hylan Blvd where the parking lanes previously open to car travel durin the rush hours in the peak direction, are now exclusive bus lanes. Further, travel time also increased by 10% also on the parallel Father Capadonno Blvd. But DOT dismissed both increases as insignificant. However. When bus passengers saved 10% travel time (amounting to about 2 minutes) on the M34 SBS, they called that significant. The problem is that few question the MTA and DOT and believe all their claims that SBS is a panacea that will save the City and the local bus system when the truth is that when all is said and done and the SBS program is completed, only about 10% of local buses will have SBS and all the local bus problems we have today such as inadequate bus routing in some areas and inconvenient transfers, poor reliability will still remain. Last week another friend in Brooklyn took a two bus trip of one mile and a quarter during the afternoon. (the B68 and the B82). The trip took him about an hour and 25 minutes because he had to wait nearly 30 minutes for each bus because of bus bunching. How wil SBS help him? |
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