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Posted by (SIR) North Shore Line on Thu Sep 13 22:00:04 2007, in response to Re: Staten Island Railway, posted by Michael549 on Thu Sep 13 13:04:57 2007. IAWTP, you've covered many of my personal views on the issues very nicely.I think there's quite a few problems with the SI Ferry nowadays besides the sporadic scheduling. -The boats are too big... The Barberi-class seems to be the staple of this..as if you ever happen to ride the Newhouse/Barberi during the middle of the rush hour, you'll probably notice that's there's probably a 1000 seats left empty. With the Molinari-class, the 3rd floor is usually devoid of people. Although OTOH, the Kennedy-class seems to have the most balance in terms of ridership due to the less amount of seats available. The Austen-class fleet seem to make the most sense and would be perfect if the SI Ferry was solely a commuter route. We have these giant boats coming in every 15, 20, 30, and 60 minutes and only half of the boat gets filled, when what we really need is smaller trains traveling back and forth between SI and Manhattan with more frequent headways. -Speeds... I can never understand how it's now 102 years later since it began, and the SI Ferry is still running at the same slow speeds..and it's still taking a whole 30 minutes to make a 5 mile journey.  -Scheduling... B&O used to run 7-8 boats simultaneously during the peak of the rush hour with 8-10 headways...what I'm wondering is where did that go wrong? |
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