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  1. https://thevillagesun.com/highway-to-hell-or-heaven-congestion-pricing-hits-roadblocks?fbclid=IwAR1bzQ5IWHSxXXFtvkfLho_63SIOgW-iIcqiDa99wlRyB8C8sGvco1Ivqik_aem_Ac4AyH4W2Acijs4GhU5I1P8OPQImO7DWgVnmqVFWId04oT_1A8Ryduu57o6IIP8JrsQFpwbwDOKR7Ybb0tu9i1JJ The story of one middle class citizen who cannot use mass transit because of cargo she lugs everyday to the Bronx and will have to pay $15 extra each day to drive one block in the CBD.
  2. Proof that the MTA isn't interested in public participation regarding the bus redesigns. They just want it to appear they are. 1} Rockaway residents have consistently opposed the Q35 rerouting on five separate occasions, including two before the Queens bus redesign, and have been ignored. The proposed change offers no benefits for Rockaway and is detrimental. https://www.rockawaytimes.com/keep-the-q35-as-is/ 2) Councilperson Paladino held a zoom meeting with the MTA on the Queens Resign on March 25 which the MTA would not publicize on its website. 3. They placed posters outside to be exposed to the elements. https://www.rockawaytimes.com/kill-the-q35-another-mta-stealth-attack/ From Facebook: 4. "So word has it the MTA is telling people to go to pop-up events and doing their best to hide/not host to get what they want on the plan instead of actual input. There was an instance where there was supposed to be hosting at Flushing but not only was there no tables, it is ONLY 2 college kids in regular clothing doing the Queens bus redesign. If you wish to attend these events, be aware they may do their best to hide in the general public so nobody can spot them and say they did outreach. Share this to everyone who wants to put feedback onto the redesign and let the MTA know we will not stand for this foolishness and outright avoiding the general public!!!" From NY Transit Forums: 5. "mikecintel said: Did anyone go to the Main Street Flushing Queens bus redesign feedback event? After work I get off at my station Flushing Main street. I am frustrated because I didn't find any tables at all nor people inside the 7 line between Dune Reade exit stairs. So I said maybe it is near Macy entrance. Then I went to the Macy entrance and went downstairs and I did not find any tables. I ask the token both rep and she replied the famous MTA line " I don't know". She said there are poster on the wall and I said yes but I don't see any tables. Then the rep didn't understand what I was saying. She then told me to call 5-1-1. Is she serious?? Call 511 to ask where the event is held and where it is located??? GIVE ME BREAK! I so angry and frustrated. Then I went back up and decided to cross the street and I saw 2 people has signs and under their arms. After I got downstairs I ask the 2 college kids do you know where the Queens bus redesign table is? To my surprise they said to me "There are no tables and it is ONLY us 2 people doing the Queens bus redesign". WHAT?? Is that MTA serious that they ONLY have 2 people an they are college kids and there are no adults or a table that says Queens Bus Redesign feed back? Anyway I gave me feedback on the Q61 and the Q15 route where I mostly take that route. I ask the 2 college kids and they didn't even wear a shirt saying MTA. OMG this is a joke. They just have a clipboard and a plain pin saying "Ask me a question?" They didn't even wear a MTA vest. The MTA expect a Queens Bus Redesign Feedback?? How the heck will people know when there are no tables inside the subway station and no poster inside the station? The 2 college kids said "Yes we been going up and downstairs" since 4PM to get feedback. How can the MTA run their "business" like this and all they want is to raise the price of the subway and bus fare. What Feedback is this? It is nonsense where people don't know where it is and there are no tables to be found. No wonder I didn't see people giving feedback because there is no table to be seen. Anyway my feedback is the Q61 I can't have 30 minutes wait in the wee early morning and it has to be 10 minutes. Peak AM is 10 minutes. Mid-day is 15 minutes. Peak PM is 10 minutes and Evening 10 minutes and late evening is 20 minutes. For the Q15 I wanted the same as the Q61 bus. For Saturday and Service it is even 10 minutes. I expected MTA to be unorganized but I didn't expect this would happen for a Queens Bus Redesign feed back UGH! I asked if Richard Davy was there (President of MTA) and those college kids said "No he is not scheduled to be here". I said I have to speak to him about the feedback and other things like customer service. Sorry about the rant but I am just telling my experience after I went to what the MTA calls "Queens Bus Redesign Feedback". I hope if any of you do go to the Queens Bus Redesign Feedback you don't experience anything what I experience today." 6. When the MTA went to the Sheepshead Bay Station last year to "publicize" the Brooklyn bus network redesign, the two employes with buttons hid near the employee bathrooms away from all the foot traffic until I insisted that they relocate to in front of the subway station where they would be more noticeable. We need to have meaningful public participation. Elected Officials, ARE YOU LISTENING?
  3. https://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/save-most-bus-stops/article_6f8a6830-e718-11ee-ba35-e767a47f8870.html https://www.rockawaytimes.com/keep-the-q35-as-is/
  4. Maybe they don’t want change because the change is not an improvement.
  5. If the redesign was a good one that helped most passengers, you wouldn’t have all this opposition. But the MTA is more concerned with providing less service to save money than they are with improving service and the riders can see through them. When my Southwest Brooklyn Plan was presented to the Community Boards in 1978, three boards voted in favor and three abstained. No one voted against it. Some minor modifications were made and the MTA made some more. There was a public hearing and it was implemented and has been very successful. I just rode half of the B1 the other day in the midafternoon and there were standees all the time in both directions. The routes it replaced barely carried seated loads and operated much less frequently.
  6. I read your previous posts and still disagree for the reason I stated. A B46 passenger is thinking he has to wait for the Brooklyn hearing to speak out against discontinuation along Broadway, so they cannot discontinue it before the Brooklyn hearing which is what you state they intend to do.
  7. They legally cannot eliminate partial routes in Brooklyn before a public hearing in Brooklyn. How are Brooklyn residents supposed to know that changes under the Queens study will eliminate parts of routes in Brooklyn such as B46 riders in East Flatbush? They wouldn’t even know to check the Queens study.
  8. If Brooklyn opposes the B53 (unless the Q24 and B46 are untouched in the meantime) it cannot be implemented with the Queens changes because Brooklyn would not have adequate opportunity to speak and there would not have been a public hearing and I doubt they would want to run all three routes on Broadway.
  9. I don’t think it would go into service until the Brooklyn study is approved.
  10. Because it’s cheaper which is the only thing they are concerned with. How to minimize operating costs regardless of the consequences. Traffic on Av Z especially with articulated buses and four routes would be overwhelming. When I asked them about it, they said, they would just eliminate parking (without looking at that impact). That’s only one problem with their proposal. Another is reduced B44SBS reliability which they conveniently ignore. I could go on.
  11. The B44 should not go to Ocean Parkway and Z . Period. If the B36 needs more service, just improve service.
  12. https://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/red-light-cam-jam/article_fcc50630-dc08-11ee-a84d-47480312c084.html
  13. I was proposing a new route using the Belt Parkway, not rerouting the Q35.
  14. https://www.rockawaytimes.com/new-bus-needed/
  15. https://www.brooklynpaper.com/op-ed-bus-network-redesign-goals/
  16. https://www.brooklynpaper.com/op-ed-bus-network-redesign-goals/
  17. Thanks, but they already mentioned it on TV.
  18. Where did you hear that? Sounds like more MTA scare tactics. They have been able to fund capital projects without congestion pricing until now.
  19. You are confusing the B36 with the B49. It is true what I wrote. Currently northbound B49 riders can get off at the Voorhies Avenue end of the station without walking. Under your proposal everyone would have to walk from E15 St and Avenue Z as with the B36. The B36 change also required an extra block walk when before, passengers could board directly in front of the station. The bus stop was replaced with a taxi stand, a great way to encourage bus travel. As for the change itself, the former route required three extra turns. I took a video during the evening rush hour that showed the buses were able to make the turns with virtually no traffic. DOT’s claim that it took much longer because of traffic was a flat out lie. And yes, the route was changed because one person in 40 years was killed by a car crossing the street at E 17 and Avenue Z. We don’t even know the reason for the accident, and a bus wasn’t even involved. A great reason to inconvenience about 3,000 bus riders a day (the sixth highest bus subway transfer point in the borough) by changing the route that I designed. As for Sheepshead Bay Road being too narrow, why did DOT add parking rather than enforce the No Standing regulations in effect when the bus operated two ways on Sheepshead Bay Road? They caused the current congestion. As for the B16 using 56 and 57 Street, the current route is much faster than it would be using 60 Street which is plagued with traffic which is why it was opposed by the Borough Park community when this idea was first proposed to them in July 2004. Of course the route should be going straight on Ft Hamilton Pkway anyway.
  20. There is virtually no supervision at all from what I can see, and sometimes the dispatchers actually make things worse.
  21. The B49 should stay on Ocean to Empire and then turn east on Empire to Utica. I used to live near there and a route like that would have been very helpful.
  22. I forgot to mention that on one of the days I described going to the beach in the mid sixties, I was waiting for a B49 at Bedford and Church along with several hundred others because the B35 was one of the few routes that transferred to the B49. (It would have been easier for me to take the B12.) Special buses were put in at Church. We weren’t close enough to board the first bus, so I counted the number of people getting on. Probably one third were children and many were carrying small beach chairs. 110 people got on that New Look bus which was filled down both stairwells. It probably went straight to the beach without stopping more than a couple of times. As far as the B41, in 1978, I did a study for three days of riders getting on at the Junction. That time there were many short runs from there to Avenue U. Also, same thing in the B44. A bus came about every five or ten minutes in the evening rush hour, but if I subtracted the short runs, there were 45 minute gaps in buses coming from Downtown Brooklyn, which is why they were so important. Sadly, today, I don’t know if any remain. Back then they knew much more how to run a system without the Limiteds, SBS, and bus lanes. Also, many buses left the Junction with just a seated load because the trains weren’t arriving. So we requested the train info from the MTA. It turned out that half the 3s and 4s leaving Manhattan and the Bronx were abandoned mid route, mostly due to door problems. That’s how bad it got.
  23. I no longer ride it now north of Sheepshead Bay, but when I was a regular user, I don’t remembering that being the case. It was only slow due to passengers getting on and off. Back in the 1960s, I used to use it to get to the beach. The buses would fill up at Church Avenue and only stop to let people off. Some has to wait an hour for a bus to stop for them if they weren’t at a major stop. Buses were super fast stopping like once every six blocks to let people off. This was usually on weekends. They never crawled along Ocean. The speed limit also was 35 mph. So it sounds to me if buses are crawling, that the schedules are padded to much.
  24. It doesn’t crawl along Ocean because of the traffic. Yes, there is some double parking, but a greater cause is frequent turnover which means many stops and many buses bunching with nothing being done to regulate them. Since there are many Kingsborough students on the 49, with many there just to save a fare, shifting them to the B44SBS going to Kingsborough, would greatly speed up the B49 by reducing the passenger load. Also, my suggestion for a state law for non emergency vehicles to give the right of way to buses pulling out of a bus stop, would not only speed up the B49, but all buses in the city, much more so than by eliminating all the bus stops now proposed for elimination.
  25. Because they run everything else so well? (Autocorrect tried to change run to ruin. Maybe I should have let it.)
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