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Posted by Michael549 on Thu Jul 5 11:36:52 2007, in response to Re: The (V) Still Looking For Love And Respect, posted by LuchAAA on Thu Jul 5 00:10:45 2007. Basically one reason for of the "V-train complaints" is nostalgia. For decades the F-train ran across 53rd Street to Queens, and the G-train ran to 71st Avenue all of the time. Some folks just can not get used to the idea that the MTA could actually make a change in such "time-honored" routes.(Have you ever listened to the squawling over the fact that the MTA had the "nerve" to remove the D train off of Brighton and replace it with the B train? Or the hundredth message this year about why the M-train to Bay Parkway is the absolute worst idea since Apollo-1? Or how although "we hate the V-train" it should be extended to "somewhere" to make it "better"?) Forget the actual reasons or logic for the changes, its emotional. Some folks really like to theorize and mentally-tinker about how "they would do it better" without having a clue to the actual day-to-day realities of running an underground railroad with very high ridership. These folks will take out there color maps and draw subway lines here and there, and conjecture about various train routes. Having taken no surveys of actual ridership needs, attempted to raise any capital for such "improvements" or to have shown any basis for the changes that they seek. Few actually ever really come to review transit history, transportation policy in the real world, or come to appreciate actual transit operations and planning. There are times when I would love to actually have a "Sim-City" type game called "Transit Authority" where one could really "test" half of these ideas. Mike |
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