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Re: LION sends note to MTA: Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity |
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Posted by Fytton on Wed Jun 27 07:01:03 2007, in response to LION sends note to MTA: Some Subways Found Packed Past Capacity, posted by Broadway Lion on Tue Jun 26 12:22:03 2007. 'LION would suggest larger multi-unit buses on Broadway and on 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Avenues. ..... Further these buses should not collect fares in the CBD, this permits faster boarding at all doorways.'Agian, copying Mayor Ken in London! The extra buses provided in the congestion-charge zone are bendibuses with multiple doors and no fare collection on board. Most Londoners (>90% at last count) now travel with Oyster cards; others have human-readable Travelcards. For the occasional single-journey rider, you have ticket machines at bus stops. Occasional spot checks are made (which would be difficult in NYC since Metrocards are not human-readable, and do not retain a machine-readable record of swipes on the card). Incidentally (though this is really for BusChat) faster loading and unloading through multiple doors is the main argument for bendibuses versus the traditional double-deckers in London. It doesn't help that the bendibuses sometimes catch fire, though (8-) ! |
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