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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Oct 28 13:45:21 2015, in response to Re: Allan Rosen and the 34th Street (Herald Square) elevator, posted by fdtutf on Wed Oct 28 10:17:43 2015. We are harping on that again (the Southwest Brooklyn changes I made) because you accused me of being a car lover who is anti-transit which is just untrue. You asked a question saying I couldn't be a mass transit advocate based on my Sheepsheadbites posts. You just don't like the answer you received because you can't refute it.I counted up the pro-mass transit articles I wrote and the pro-car articles I wrote and showed you the numbers. I am doing that work again for you. If you disagree, then you count the articles. Your philosophy which the City unfortunately shares that we do everything possible to inconvenience motorists and increase their trip times and coddle to cyclists and pedestrians, while we do nothing to improve mass transit like reactivating the Rockaway Beach Line, is like Affirmative Action. When does it turn from being something positive to something that makes no sense anymore and becomes discriminatory? Examples: The Miss Black America Contest was created because Blacks were discriminated against being candidates in the Miss America contest. Now they can enter and even win it. Yet there is still a Miss Black America Contest? Why? We needed affirmative action quotas because Blacks couldn't get ahead. Now they can become President of the United States and women can become CEOS of the largest companies. Do we still need race and gender quotas? Why should some who's less qualified be given a job simply because of their race or gender? It isn't right. Back to transit. We only pretend to be doing things to improve transit. We extend the Number 7 to help developers, not commuters. The M34 is quicker than the new subway extension. We will be building a train to LaGuardia also to help developers. The trip for airport commuters will not be any quicker. What are we really doing for transit? Doubling the number of trains on the Times Square Shuttle for two hours a day and we have to wait nine months for that. Big deal. SBS has not proven to be as effective as the MTA and DOT are claiming it is yet we still ask everyone to use mass transit while we don't provide the capacity to accommodate them. We tell them not to drive and make it more difficult for them to drive. We need to make all forms of transportation easier. We need more bike lanes. we need more subways and better bus routes that connect more easily minimizing transfers. Yet we institute new bus routes that terminate a block or two from a major bus terminal. we build a new subway line to the Javits Center but don't even provide a connection to it but leave a two block walk. We need less crowded subways at 11 PM but don't provide the trains. We won't buy open gangway trains to lessen the crowding by allowing walking between cars. We need to reduce traffic bottlenecks, not increase them. But frequently these goals are in conflict like bus lanes and bike lanes vs car lanes. You say that in the past we favored automobiles so now we must ignore the wants and needs of drivers. So my question to you is when is enough enough? When do we stop turning lanes for cars and trucks into bus and bicycle lanes? When every street with a bus route as a bus lane even if the bus operates every 20 minutes and every street has a designated bike lane so that cars can't travel more than 5 mph? If we want to encourage mass transit, we need to really improve it, not make only token gestures. As long as cars are still necessary because not everyone is willing to spend two hours to make mass transit trips that could be made by cars in 30 minutes. We need to remove bottlenecks not increase them causing car trips to take two hours unnecessarily and causing untold harm to society. That road rage incident the other day on Queens Boulevard occurred where a new bottleneck merger was created due to a traffic lane being converted to a bicycle lane. The plain fact is cars are a necessity for some and that isn't changing tomorrow. We just cannot ignore that fact as you and NYCDOT is now doing. You can't just tell those people to use mass transit and at the same time just make token gestures to improve it. We have to be fair to everyone today, not to only one segment of society and that goes for Affirmative Action and job quotas as well as for mass transit users, bus riders and cyclists. We can't place the needs of one group over another regardless of what did or did not happen in the past. |
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