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Outside of the M104, I know all these buses run right past major hospitals, so maybe that's why they are keeping enhanced service. Maybe the M104 is being kept for St Luke's, but a block off from Broadway

There will be no change for a sizeable percentage of riders in my area.

The interesting thing is between the Pathmark closing on on Lexington and the parking garage between 7th and Lenox, there were garages to use. People do drive to 125th as you said, bu getting them to pay for parking when they would park on the street (possibly for free). It's the double parking between mainly 8th and 5th that really hurt since the creation of the buslane. What you say about the M103 in the southern part of Manhattan, people north of 96th complain about with the M102. So see a sea of M103s and M101s going north before a M102 shows up is annoying and then what's further annoying is that it will be usually a bunched M102s meaning if you miss that batch, you have to wait again. The other thing is this past Saturday morning before 8 AM, I'm waiting for a M116 to go to home and in the span of 7 minutes, I see 2 M102s going uptown in a time when there's barely anyone out. Even the M7 doesn't run that often on a Saturday Morning and any other time on Lenox you will more likely see a M7 come (unless it's those bunched M102s)

I just got off a 4200 series bus from MHV advertising OMNY being available starting May 31st at Noon. Of course there was fine print, but I carrying groceries plus the person sitting next to the sign so I couldn't read it closer. It couldn't be an old sign since it was placed right across from the rear doors.

My opinion of the 101 (and the whole Lex / 3 Av routes) would be: 101: Ft George - 96th St 102: Limited south of 116th and Lex / 3rd 103: Unchanged Of course with the shortening of the 101, I would reallocate those buses to the 102 and 103. Those buses bunch too much and with a shortened 101, you don't need the same headways on it anymore. Sidenote: I also get rid of that 116th and Park stop for NB 102s / WB 116s

Last few times out I've seen uptown M2 buses signed up as saying M2 Limited / M2 Worth St via 5th / Bway

Is there some future plan to send the M2 to Worth St or just some special occasion code I've been more recently seeing?

If NJT gets involved, is it possible that SEPTA could join? I'm just thinking that OMNY could become the E-ZPass of Public Transit in the region

I just have this feeling when it comes to the Manhattan redesign and the Lexington Avenue routes, the 101 will be shorted to either 96 or Hunter College, the 103 becomes the limited, and the 102 doesn't change. But there's no real direct path for the 101 to get front Amsterdam to Lex/3rd without using 125th. So the 125 and the 101 have to be the local to the 60. As for the Bx15 going to Lex, it will still suffer from the Triboro. So I can understand why they would leave it in the Bronx. But true Bus Lane enforcement of 125th is needed and the 60 should have been one of the routes that have cameras to issue tickets as well.

Back when I worked on the East End JC for the city, I would use the M100 to work and the BX15 from as I knew both would be mostly empty. Nice way not to stress coming or going to work. But I can tell, especially on the PM rush, the Triboro will kill reliability on all the buses coming going east past Lenox. It doesn't help that even now with the bus lane, that enforcement is minimal. So this is pretty much the MTA's way of dealing with both issues. M100s won't have to short at 5 Ave, Bx15s won't have to end at Lexington and more room for the M60, M(1)25, and the M101 Most people just say last number for 125th, 135th, and 145th. So a M25 would have made more cultural sense but only to those who live in the area (espcially how all the other crosstowns equal the street number. Speaking of which, when they do come to Manhattan, I feel like a lot of the through-Harlem N/S routes will suffer. The M101 being split will be good. But I can also see them taking the M3 & M4 off of 5th/Madison for expanded M1/M2. The M7 being shorted to Times Sq or Columbus Circle seems highly likely as well since a lot of those buses already end there during the rush.

Today is the last day that the original first stop for the M60 (125th/7th Ave). Of course I wish they kept it for legacy reasons but I know why it's gone in 77 minutes. Maybe that B32 has the potental to be the next breakout M60 if treated right.

So I leave McDoanlds this moring around 930ish thinking oh, an M2 shouldn't be that long away. I check Bus Checker (modded) on Z10 and see 24 minutes. I say, that can't be right. I check the moblie bustime app and sure enough it was right (155th and Edgecombe Ave). I decided to walk home. Around 1005 I hear said bus go by from my window (which isn't that far from the McDonalds). This is the thing that infurates me about how ran into the ground the M2 has become.

The two times I was out, besides those listed, MV, MQ, & WF was there as well. DIdn't see much of WF but there was a couple I saw

Looks like a Manhattan and Bronx depots project

And making the M7 that long would degrade UWS and Lenox riders who suffer from other routes who bunch (M11 / M102) No reason to make the M2 suffer for the M3. Between 34th and approx 86th, M1-M4 riders are interchangeable, North of 86th, each route has it's defined riders. By switching M2 and M3, the M3 would have surplus buses running lighter as LTD and the M2 would have packed buses if headways remained the same. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it and the majority of 5th/Madison Ave corridor routes work fine as it is (excluding either the M1 or M2 [more preferably for me M2] going to S. Ferry)

I can concede the Bx5 idea because the theory was based on that shoppers would want Bay Plaza over White Plains Road. As for the Bx1, while the idea of sharing units is good, they can easily move from 138th - 3rd to 135th - St. Nicholas if they need a Bx1 to run as a Bx2 as well in the North Bronx. As for length, all you would be adding is .9 of a mile to a route. But to compromise, what if only half of the runs would go to 135th - St. Nicholas where as the remainder would still go to the current terminal?

At most, it would get delayed on the Madison Ave bridge going north. 135th St is not a heavy used crosstown street like 125th or 145th

Here are two ideas that may work Send the Bx1 over to 135th St & St. Nicholas. At the same time, you can reduce service on the Bx33 to 25 minutes all times besides Sunday AM Weekend Bx5 service extended to Bay Plaza. Some of the Summer weekend service would still go to Orchard Beach.

I see what your saying and could say that the extension to 125th-Park would be a weekday only extension. It seems as 125th/RFK isn't as backup on weekends. The only other problem I see which could be fixed by the Port Authority would be making Route A have a stop on Astoria Bvld and 82nd St so that those who take the Q19 wouldn't have to send a second+ fare after transfering from the 4,5,6, Metro North, or E. Harlem bus service

Throwing this out there to see if it gets a pop: Extend the Q19 to 125-Park Ave? Not all runs have to 125th - Park ave but sending some could help the M60 crossing the Triboro. From 31st & Astoria cross Triboro and stops the M35 stops on 126th and 124th St. Last stop & layover would be near side 126th St & Park Ave. First stop would be at the M98 Stop on Park Ave - 125th St. Stops on Lexington ave at 124th & 126th could be establish as needed.

If that's the case where you missing at most 185 new riders, I saw take the risk, if I was running it. If after 6 months the idea didn't catch own, then you could shut it back down to 106. If anything you could shift a run from the M10 to bring the balance. As for the M116, I can tell you they must have checkers at times when school is out. M116 summer service isn't the same as M116 during the rest of the year. For a route that brings in profit, better headways couldn't hurt it at all

Before extending the M2 service anywhere, can we please do something about it's off-peak service. Mid-day and evening service are just horrible. Pretty much I have shifted from the M2 to the M7 coming home from work because there is more M7 downtown service then M2. The M1 weekend service is doomed as it is now. The M1 doesn't really have any great destinations that it serves and unlike the M10, it is on wrong side of 125th St to pickup shoppers. If they really want to keep the weekend stub service, the least they could do is send it down to 96th St. Giving it Mt. Sini and Carver Houses would at least keep it from being killed off completly. M1 Harlem support isn't like M10 or even Bx33 Harlem support Some other north 96th St ideas M116 service still needs a bump from 12min to 10 minutes in the midday. Evening could go from 15 to 12. DO NOT SHORT THE Bx15! The Bx15 as the 125th St crosstown is fine as it is. RFK traffic is what kills it going to the Bx (as well as when police want to take one lane on 125st to do a police checkpoint) M35 service is fine but I do see, in the long term, the switch to LFSA when there are much more.