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Most of the ridership for n26 are riders coming from the subway/Queens going to LIJ/that whole area, hence it runs to Jamaica during PM and to Nassau AM opposite all the other routes in the area n26 is actually one of the route NICE improved. It went from having 2-3 trips in each direction under LIB into almost once every 30 minutes during peak period, an increase of close to 300% I never got the impression the ridership base for Q27 riders north of HHE is the same as the riders south of there. From my personal experience, everyone getting on at Flushing are off the bus by the HHE, and the riders south of there are traveling solely within Springfield I would argue that riders on Springfield do benefit from the high frequencies the Q27 provides (from Flushing), and there is no doubt in my mind that the MTA will never provide as many buses on Springfield had it been its own route minus Flushing I walked faster than the Q72 before... Bus was at 35th Avenue... I was at Rego Park and the bus was still in the vicinity of Corona Avenue The primary issue is the commercial part of East Elmhurst where there are routine trucks and double parked vehicles. I can walk to Roosevelt Ave from Northern Blvd faster than the bus

That's if they didn't shut the entire system down. There ain't no way MTA would deal with the 2.5 million Nassau gave NICE during 2012-2017 I remember the old rants against the MTA as well... even as far as wanting a LITA (Long Island Transportation Authority), and cutting express buses in NYC because they are empty. I mean he is currently ranting about the LIRR as it is

Dare I argue that 108th Street doesn't really need a bus, let alone a frequent service. 103rd Street is much closer to the heart of Corona, and the surrounding commercial/residential area than 108th Street Regarding frequencies, combining the inner portions of Q10 and Q23 will already cause 108th Street to be overserved. So I believe there should be short turns at Queens Blvd/Kew Gardens. All the other bus heading onto 108th St, should serve Corona (north of Roosevelt). I could see some short turns at 102/E Elmhurst, however once you get to that stop, you might as well go the whole way

Went to the TAB hearing today, Requested the officer to show up denied, (despite being offered "that right") "Judge" looked like she was going to pled me guilty the second she turn on the video camera, saying things like "I decide if the police officer shows up or not, or I decided if its a emergency" Absolutely a waste of time. In fact this whole experience turned me even more sour on TAB and the even as a whole. 100% kangaroo "court"... I am convinced nobody walks out of there with their tickets dismissed

Overall a much better plan than the previous version Q49: Glad they are keeping this route intact. Although some of the stop removals are questionable. Going northbound most of the boardings occur at 74th Term and 37th Ave, no idea why they would eliminate that stop. I can see the 35th/74th go, however. Because this is a neighborhood route, they didn't need to cut stops like that, because, after a certain threshold, passengers will just opt to walk to the instead. Also, I am not sure they needed to extend this route along Astoria Blvd either, if it was up to me, I would just end it at that burger king at 92nd and Astoria. Buses are empty on Astoria anyways. Also, what's with the move from 32 Avenue to 31st Ave, what difference does that make? Q66: Glad they are straightening this route out, though I am skeptical about the ridership west of the Home Depot on Northern Blvd. Most ridership west of 35th Ave either came from 31 street or got on at 21 street Queensbridge station heading somewhere along 21 Street, but never further into Jackson Heights. By cutting off 35th Avenue, now you are relying on ridership along N Blvd and Queens Plaza, which I predict will be abysmal. Riders from LIC /Hunters Points area are more likely headed to Manhattan, or even Brooklyn than out east to Jackson heights/Woodside. I would end most service at Woodside/51 street or Steinway/Northern Blvd, and run every other trip to LIC/Queens Plaza via Northern They removed a lot of stops along this route which is highly annoying even before the redesign. After 108th Street, the next stop is 102nd Street, and similarly, after 89th St, the next stop is Junction Blvd. These are subway stopping distances. I can understand having a bus every 3-4 blocks, but every 6-7 blocks are way too far for unreliable bus service. Q19: I don't mind the consolidation with the Q15 bus, but it's highly annoying in that instead of going via Northern Blvd after 114th and essentially running express to Flushing, buses will have to detour down via 108th and Roosevelt. I would keep the bus on Astoria to Main Street and run it south to Sanford, and north on 149th Street. There will most likely be 100% turnover along Main Street anyway, so it wouldn't impact most passengers. Or at least do what the Q50 is doing in that area, which is to turn onto 126th. That being said with this combination, no more of the Q15A trying to fit down the side streets in Beechhurst Q39/67: Pretty smart thing they did there, cut the Q39 overnight, detach the current overnight ridership portion and hand it over to the Q67. Sunnyside will lose overnight service, however, most of it is walkable to , and most of the industrial portions/FedEx/UPS warehouses will maintain their overnight service for early shift workers, as well as Ridgewood passengers Astoria: I will still maintain my stance that there is simply too much service serving this portion of Queens. Other than 21 Street, Astoria/the neighborhood doesn't utilize the buses, and with the development/gentrification of the area, I expected it to have even less usage in the future. Q105/Q68: I don't feel like the Q105 needed to exist at all, the Q68 can be extended to Rikers and rerouted to Ditmars to service the 20th Ave - subway passengers. There should also be some short turns on this route serving only the Sunnyside - Astoria portion of the route. Traffic on the BQE could be horrific. That being said, good idea on paper, but the demographics living in that area will most likely continue to pile onto the Q104: Glad they are trying something to make this route work because currently, it doesn't work. I could've swore most of the ridership along this route is along 48th Street heading to the (and not a lot of ridership). Extending to Roosevelt Island will add "some" ridership headed to Queens but it will overall continue to be a very low ridership route Broadway (Elmhurst corridor)- This corridor will be way overserved with the extension of the Q52 to 74th Street. They should've just left the Q52 at Hoffman/QCM and scheduled it correctly with the Q53, this way both Woodhaven buses will not be bogged down by double parking/traffic along Broadway. Q63 On top of the Q52/Q53, you have the Q63 going along Broadway as well. I don't see the point of the Q63 traveling anywhere south of the 74th Street terminal. I am struggling to understand what ridership the Q63 will be trying to serve. Maybe 35th Av to the and Broadway between 51 street and 74th Street - QBL Express? I think the only thing it would accomplish is siphoning some ridership off the Q18 in that area Q58/Q98: Love this idea. There is a significant portion of passengers getting on at Grand Avenue/Newtown station heading into Flushing. This should alleviate the overcrowding of the Q58. it will also add some room for Newtown HS Students getting onto the Q58 Q32: I wonder why they didn't reroute this bus to Columbus Circle, it would connect to most subway lines as a crosstown route. Is it to serve the elderly population which relies on this route? Also, there is no point in having this route continue past 74th/Broadway as well. I rather have the Q21 terminate at 81 St/Broadway instead, to provide JH passengers with a one-seat ride to QCM Q72: Called it, it always made more sense to reroute this to QCM to provide additional connections to other bus lines versus staying at Rego Park. Probably adds significantly more runtime due to the traffic in the area, but I think it's worth it. Q21/11- As I said above, I would prefer if they extended the Q21 up to Northern/83 Street. On Woodhaven, while I understand their reasoning for cutting the Q11 to the Rockaway blvd , it still represents a cut in capacity for Woodhaven locals. not that the current service is scheduled any better as you have the Q21/11 leaving 10 minutes apart on service every 30 minutes. Q47: Central Terminal? On that note I much rather they keep the Q47 on 80th Street/Calamus instead of running it along 80th St since they have the B57 there anyways. Riders use that route from Calamus/80th as a residential route to connect with the QB Express (similar to those in JH). I am okay with them rerouting them on Woodside Ave. The tradeoff for that is a loss of direct one-seat ride from Middle Village to Elmhurst/JH and replacing the Q80 B57: I wonder why this bus is extended to 83rd Street/37 Avenue like that, no layover room at the 74th Street terminal? Q25: LOL they are ending this route in front of CP depot or something? I originally thought extending it to 20 Ave shopping corridor would be a good idea, but thinking about it now, most of the stores there are also available at Skyview in Flushing Q17/27/25/34- Interesting move they are attempting here. Currently, All these routes are competing for the same passengers heading down Kissena Blvd today, so I understand their reasoning for rerouting the Q27 off Kissena and running the Q17 permanently as an express to provide faster service for passengers heading into Fresh Meadows For Q27, agreed with them splitting up the service, the ridership based south of LIE/HHE and Springfield is completely different from the ridership north of it. Q76: Wonder why they can't extend the Q76 into College point proper to where the Q20 terminates. Would provide CP direct access to the shopping centers on 20th Avenue Q22: Another smart move, they reduced the service serving Neposit by combing the Q35 and Q22 service onto the Q35, and utilize the savings to extend the Q22 into Five Towns Shopping Center, where many Rockaways residents go to shop. Q43: NICE bus will be really happy, because they can officially cut the entire n26, saving Nassau taxpayers money and passing it to NYC taxpayers Q4: Same deal here, NICE will probably find a way to reduce/cut the n1. Maybe end it at Elmont at all times? TBH that route should go to Jamaica at all times. Express bus: Wow, QM3 is gone, all weekend service is now every 90 minutes, all routing is via LIE... I believe operators should have MORE discretion in which routing they can take instead of less Also I wonder how will the divisions be affected with this redesign. Which will be MTA Bus which will be NYCT? The city still writes a blank check each year for MTAB routes, so I would imagine the MTA will have a financial incentive to classify as many routes as possible to MTAB? Not sure how it would work there

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150429/kensington/straphanger-fights-ticket-for-fleeing-urine-filled-subway-car/ It doesn't look like TAB has a good record of dismissing cases or even reducing the charges based on the circumstances. I believe I read somewhere that they had a 83% upheld rate. I believe that is worse than the city's record. I believe for TAB you are also allowed to request the issuing officer to be present at the next hearing for cross examination Still going to waste half my day going to a hearing though, they will eventually take my $75, but they will have to earn that

I did mention that the ofter car smell like smoke and that’s someone has been smoking in it. But the officers were busy running my background or something and said they’ll deal with it after, but I was pulled out of the train next station and written a summons, so it was never dealt with The officers were nice, but still, really sucky feeling to have when I got ticketed for breaking an rule that doesn’t affect other passengers while the person in the other car who is affecting other passengers gets away. I’ll try to visit the TAB in Brooklyn to get a hearing, but ultimately I will have to pay the fine anyways since it’s hard to justify that it was an “emergency “ Even worse after I received the ticket on the next there was one person smoking a cigar in the car and another person standing between cars smoking a cigarette It's so common on the that I even thought it was something that is in the book but rarely enforced (like Jaywalking) Learn't my lesson here, still $75 is ridiculous, when fare beating/smoking itself is only $100

Just received a ticket on the subway for "using the end door to pass between cars". I'm guessing I am suppose to deal with someone smoking in the other car. I hope the MTA enjoy my $75, because they are lucky they caught someone who produced an ID and was compliant with the NYPD, while people continue to smoke on the subway

I think a lot of the videos are directly influenced by PinePower's usual rant. Even to the tune of XX news not covering a certain crime event

I recall TransportAzumah was threatening to sue MTA for a while for "stealing" all their passengers

Exactly, its a train Gets me from Point A - Point B. It's not like the R46's break down every other day. I think what some are saying is that the should get new cars AT THE EXPENSE of QBL passengers. Selfish much?

Didn't like the Red and Tan pretty much shut down their entire network around 2000-2010, and they were a big player around Journal Square Did NJT take over most of the lines ? I know the 119 replaced what was then the 99S and maybe the 10, and the S89 replaced their direct SI - Jersey City Express. Are there still routes not taken over/or made redundant by HBLR?

http://web.mta.info/capitaldashboard/CPDPlan.html?PLN=7&AGY=a Part of the 2015-2019 MTA Captial Program. Suppose to start years ago, but looking at this dashboard (not sure how updated this is) the estimated completion date is June 2022, with 0% progress The stations along the are in horrible shape. The one stairwell/exit at 52nd Street has been closed for years already, and you can literally see the decay/corrosion for the 82nd Street platform. In some ways I'm kind of jealous of the Astoria ESI, which were part of the batch where the stations were extremely well done (not half assed like 6th Ave IND). You look at the beauty of those stations, and compare them to the deteriorating stations along the east of 46th Street its like looking at night and day

My mistake MTA requested 26 million more on top of Nassau’s then 9 million contribution per year. Landing at a total subsidy figure of 35 million annually and that is before STOA. And that was only for 2011 Nassau was being cheap and probably didn’t even want a bus service in the first place, but its not hard to see that NICE is so much more efficient than the MTA will ever be considering the fact that they had to make do with the minimal contributions from Nassau My point still stands, I rather give NICE the 26 million dollars than have the MTA come back

They should have it on any buses crossing 125th Street, and any bus in Canarsie, and any bus on Staten Island if they want to really combat farebeating M72 really? connecting upper East Side to upper West Side? Doesn't even make sense from a crime perspective https://nypost.com/2022/02/21/nearly-one-third-of-nyc-bus-riders-arent-paying-the-fare/ That being said, 30% riders are not paying their fare with 50% non payment rate in the Bronx, and a big jump in non payment rate on Staten Island. Is it really a surprise, not a surprise to me? I am starting to see it happening lately on Queens buses now... still the minority but getting there Next year it will be 40% citywide, follow by 50% in 2024 Might as well make the buses free at that point and hose us all in extra taxes instead of us honest people paying essentially double (fare + taxes)...

The time saved for passenger south of Kings Hwy will be less than the additional time passengers north of it will incur waiting. In other words, its not worth sacrificing service for passengers north of Neptune Ave to benefit the few riders south of it.

Half of the LIB fleet failed inspection in 2011. So bad that MTA had to bring in Orion 5's from the city to cover the shortfall in fleet, so they can fix up the buses for NICE when they takeover And the MTA wanted 36 million more in operating assistance and that is only for 2011. If they were still operating today there would be no doubt in my mind it will probably be still 36 million but with half of the routes gone. If you gave NICE the 36 million, you'll probably see an every Jamaica bus running every 15 minute on weekend and every Nassau routes running every 30 minutes weekday. Hell I think it there will be improvement in service if we consistently gave the 9 million we gave the MTA in 2011 to NICE each year

All the Orion 7s are honestly shot at this point, and that is including the 3G's. I doubt they can make it another summer. They been through a really dark period of deferred maintenance of the final days of LIB as well as the dark days of NICE

I mean this is an agency that allowed you to buy peak tickets throughout the pandemic, and even keeping a big warning in the app telling you when off peak tickets are not accepted well into 2020 It would make way too much sense to simplify the tariffs for the commuter railroads, but the would prefer you try to comprehend which ticket is the best ticket you should buy when going from Atlantic Terminal to Rosedale: Peak Off Peak CityTickets with minimal explanation Atlantic Tickets, which is the same as CityTicket except it allows you on peak trains I swear the railroad is begging you to just press peak/off peak and ignore the other options. For a while I believe the MTA had AT under deal and packages, not sure if they moved that now

S2 - Great idea, currently the S40 has decent service between Patchogue and Babylon, however, the current S20 service is terrible west of it. I am okay with them cutting service along Oak Street and redirecting all service on Montauk Highway. Montauk Highway is further from the LIRR. SCT had it too good for too long by essentially having Nassau subsidizing Montauk Highway service. Plus S10 covers that area slightly. Also, I noticed they timed this route with a 15 minute offset at Bayshore with the other routes, great idea. S5 - If they are having a timed connection with the S4 why do they have it continue to Central Islip? So pax connecting at the CI pulse can have a direct service to Babylon? Seems pretty wasteful to me having two buses traveling between CI and Brentwood at the same time every 30 minutes, and SCT offers 2 free transfers anyways S51- This route makes total sense. The northern part of the route serves PJ + combined with Stony Brook (and the S69 night Loop), serving the student ridership going to Smith Haven Mall, as well as PJ Village proper. It removes duplication between SH Mall and PJ. It does remove service to NY 347 though, therefore missing the shopping center with Walmart there. That is a tough tradeoff, if it were up to me I would like to see continued service on the 347, through some sort of loop SHM - PJ -SB - SHM. But that will add two extra buses if we were to run it every 30 minutes, but no extra buses if each portion is served every hour. I understand their reasoning for their current routing though, it forces all the current Mall - Stony Brook- PJ Village - PJ to ride the one bus remaining. The southern part of this route is miles better than the current S57/S59 combined which makes a million deviation on its way to Sayville S17 - That ending on Montauk highway just doesn't sit right with me. I would extend the southern terminus to either Islip, to serve some commercial areas along Islip Ave, or to Great River LIRR, so people on connectquot will have slightly less of a walk and have more options. Though extending this line anywhere else will probably force them to add more buses if they wanted to preserve the pulse/30 min headway. Not that I believe Carleton Ave should have a 30-minute service. I feel like they have it to try to replace the southern portion of the S42 along Islip Ave which they assume passengers will walk to Carleton S62 - Seems like there is no more direct Happague to Smith Haven Mall service. Passengers will now have to transfer at either Brentwood/or Central Islip, which isn't the worse with the pulse system. I am assuming the S11 and the S6/17 will be offset by 15 minutes, so passengers will have a bus every 15 minutes connecting Happague and the KO branch (although they will make the same train/bus because S11 takes a loner route to Brentwood) I am not keen on cutting the entire portion PJ east to Wading River/Riverhead. Ridership is low in this area, but I feel like something should cover this huge portion of the county, maybe something like a Flexi bus, it has a set route between PJ and Riverhead, but can deviate 3/4 of a mile, since most people don't live exactly along 25A S58/S6- I wonder how good that transfer will be at Vet Mem/Old Willet, this way passengers don't need to ride into Brentwood to continue on Jericho Tpk Nothing in the Dix Hills area... that doesn't sit right with me as well. It is not exactly an urbanized area or even suburban but I feel a Flexi route connecting with every train at Wyandanch serving Deer Park Ave/WWM area would work. That being said WWM is left with two routes. 10B/C- Seems like they utilized resources on both routes to attempt to run this as one microtransit route. Most likely they cut a bus from it so from 3 to 2 buses. I would run it as a Flexi, which is similar to the current 10C but deviates 3/4 miles off route. The current route between Bridgehampton and Montauk is on NY 27. The benefit of having a Flexi route is that you have somewhat of a schedule and more flexible drop off points in Bridgehampton and Montauk Overall, they went way too far into the frequency territory for SCT. In the ideal world, passengers can just walk to the nearest route, but Suffolk County overall is not easily walkable, and the streets are usually not in a grid-like network. I believe Suffolk County as a whole will be served much better by consistent 60 minute routes with timed transfers and more routes than 30 minutes services with fewer routes, since more people will have access to service. That being said however the positives about this frequent network is that potentially there will be more LIRR - Bus ridership for SCT (and that SCT will have a bus system better than most of NICE's network) I think they are more so trying to avoid duplication along Montauk highway with the S2 From all the time I fan it I never see more than a dozen passengers on board and that is including the ones serving the Captree fishing dock. LIRR actually has a package with SCT but its nowhere near as popular as the n88 package with NICE. Don't think transit dependent city residents come out this far or go to Robert Moses specifically. But for SCT 2-4 per bus is not exactly bad ridership so in context I don't know SCT currently attempt to coordinate S61 to the Ferry departures (could be a coincidence), but because of traffic, its becomes a very nail biting connection. Last time I attempt this, what was supposed to be a 10 minute connection ended up being a 2 minute connection I think the theory is all passengers from Ronkonkoma will take a bus to Patchogue for the S2 to backtrack to Sayville. This way there are no duplications along Montauk Hwy That being said, SCT as it currently stands, do operate somewhat of a pulse operation at Patchogue with all the bus leaving at the top of the hour and arriving 10-15 min before. Though if the buses are late, they will not wait I wonder how will they coordinate the pulses? Will they have boots on ground, some sort of a signal system like in Syracuse, radio system, or are they just going to pad the schedules so that the buses are never late. Also in the plan "The Draft New Network does include a larger budget for more service, but most of that additional budget is used to ensure that buses run more reliably on-time. Today’s Existing Network has very poor reliability: the average route is on-time only about 40% of the time. This poor reliability is due to schedules that have not been updated in many years, and therefore are not accounting for changes in traffic patterns. Improving reliability to a more reasonable level requires an investment of at least 15% in additional fixed route service to account for slower speeds. An additional 5% investment in fixed route service is included in the Draft New Network to provide more consistent service on the evenings and weekends. Fixed route services comprise roughly 45% of the County’s total Transit budget, so this would mean a 9-10% increase in the overall Transit budget." Does this mean they have the 15% secured to improve OTP or not?

Pinepower has some interesting points, but lately he has been obsessed with the South Shore, so much that he believes the n4 doesn't deserve the service it currently receives Something tells me that the passengers riding the n4 are not the same passengers who ride the Babylon Branch

Because under your system a person could in theory, spread out the $33 Monday through Sunday in Pay Per rides in week 1, and get unlimited rides for week 2 starting on Sunday of week 1, that means the MTA gets $33 for two weeks instead of one week, which is essentially losing half the revenue The current system prevents that abuse, because the weeks are reset every Sunday. This new system is intended to ensure people do not pay more than the current weekly pass (people who are low income or people who miscalculate, often spending more on Pay Per Rides than a full week worth of passes) . You are still getting a week worth of rides for $33, its just not as flexible as the current system (has to begin on Monday/end on Sunday)

Yeah you are looking at this wrong This pilot is essentially the same as buying a weekly every Monday but instead of paying it on one go you pay it with the initial PPR option. Once MTA collects $33 you get the rest of the week free. So the MTA gets the $33 for the week either way what you wanted is more like you paid for the MTA using the current Metrocard using pay per ride to $33 and MTA gives you a free weekly pass. Under your ideal scenario MTA essentially gives a buy one get one free deal for weekly pass It will therefore never happen because then everyone will spend $33 for essentially TWO week of free ride without the week limit

I mean to be fair, you can probably board any Astoria train and it will not have any opportunity to change track until well into Midtown. It won't go on the anytime soon, so most passengers will not be affected

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