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44 minutes ago, RSMG106 said:
I can agree on this. The more slower, the worst it's going to become. We see buses going slow due to strict speed limits, and that is how the system is slow. If you want better service, increase the speed limit, and be very careful.
They just should have left the speed limits the way it was before Vision Zero.
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29 minutes ago, mikecintel said:
Yes you are right very few people think like me what I said about customer service. I work Info Tech in the help desk and that is what they train us so that is why i am saying that. Yes that I agree with you the poor gets poorer. Well what you said is true expecting exceptional customer in this day and age it is gone. I agree that there is arguments between the MTA and the riding public. I understand what you mean about this day but Richard Davy should not say we are improving customer service when there is no customer service. Too me that is like "false advertising".
Any question or suggestion made to the MTA gets an immediate automatic reply with a number thanking you, and you never hear from them again. The status is marked open or closed, but they never give you a reason. To me that is zero customer service. I remember years ago personally writing to Byford, and Howard Roberts and Joseph Smith when they were in charge of Buses and always received a reply usually quickly. Now if you write to any individual, they just ignore you.
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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.
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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?
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31 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:
To be honest, yes. I’ve been reading some of these complaints and most of them are basically along the lines of “I’ve been riding this line for x amount of time and don’t want change”.
Maybe they don’t want change because the change is not an improvement.
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5 hours ago, Lawrence St said:
At this point, they’re spending more money changing each redesign then actually implementing it…
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.
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19 minutes ago, MysteriousBtrain said:
Reread my previous posts.
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.
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2 hours ago, MysteriousBtrain said:
They can take studies from the Brooklyn redesign and implement it by the time the Queens redesign is ready. Technically, the Brooklyn final plan needs to be ready before any implementations, but that doesn't mean they won't be implemented after the Queens redesign.
Hearings still need to be held regardless of the borough, so there's plenty of time to announce changes if there needs to be any.
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.
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5 hours ago, MysteriousBtrain said:
The only changes regarding Brooklyn routes is the service in Queens and changes that involves Queens routes, even if they touch Brooklyn. This includes:
Splitting the B24 to the B53/Q68
Q24 from Bushwick to Broadway Junction being replaced by the B53
B32 discontinued and replaced by the B53/B62
B57 extension to Jackson Heights
B62 extension to Astoria
Unless the MTA makes an announcement or the final plan is updated, these changes will be in conjunction with the Queens redesign.
Separate note, people forget how the M100 was changed despite not being a Bronx route. It'll be the same concept for the above routes.
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.
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4 hours ago, BelieveinMe said:
Question for the board.
Can someone please explain the B53.
Is it supposed to go into service at the same time the Queens reroute,or the Brooklyn reroutes?
I don’t think it would go into service until the Brooklyn study is approved.
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27 minutes ago, Ex696 said:
If that was a better solution, why didn't they just increase B36 service instead of rerouting the B44-SBS away from Knapp Street?
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.
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6 hours ago, Ex696 said:
For the
, wouldn't it be better to just have the Avenue U-Flushing Avenue trips be extended to Ocean Parkway-Avenue Z whereas the Washington Plaza trips continue to run the current full route all the way down to Knapp Street?
The B44 should not go to Ocean Parkway and Z . Period. If the B36 needs more service, just improve service.
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37 minutes ago, Brillant93 said:
The Q35 going to sheepsheads bay and not Flatbush junction where there is a straight connection to a subway doesn't make any sense at all. How many people from Far Rockaway are going to that area? Who will it benefit? Most of the people who travel from that area aren't going there so there isn't a need for the Q35 to even be rerouted because you are already taking away a direct connection to Manhattan via the subway.
I was proposing a new route using the Belt Parkway, not rerouting the Q35.
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26 minutes ago, LGA Link N Train said:
I wanted to post the actual picture of the letter that came out yesterday however I can’t figure out how to post pictures on this Site from my phone but I uploaded it on Twitter so here it is:
Thanks, but they already mentioned it on TV.
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1 hour ago, LGA Link N Train said:
Well. Due to ongoing Lawsuits against Congestion Pricing. All future
Capital Projects have been postponed until further notice.
Where did you hear that? Sounds like more MTA scare tactics. They have been able to fund capital projects without congestion pricing until now.
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4 hours ago, Interested Rider said:
What Brooklyn Bus wrote as to "he" is not true. I decided not to get involved because the change in routing was directly connected to the accident where a person was killed by a bus turning at East 17th Street. and Avenue Z which led to the change. By going straight on Avenue Z from East 17th Street to East 15th Street, the B/36 would avoid the many turns which is in line with the proposed change for the B/49 from Sheepshead Bay Road. This change was also in line with former mayor Bill DeBlasio's Vision Zero which I believe played a role in the re-routing of the B/36
The reason that I proposed using Neptune, Coney Island and Avenue Z, it provides an alternative to the narrow streets that the B/49 operates on in Sheepshead Bay which you are proposing as an alternative to the routing that I have proposed. I sincerely doubt that Operations Planning would be interested in substituting one set of narrow streets for another. In reading through the design, Operations Planning makes it quite clear that if there is an alternative that can be used, they will change the route. (see B/16 ((for example) rerouting from 56th and 57th Streets to 60th Street ire-routing n Borough Park and the routing in Kensington).
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.
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5 hours ago, Interested Rider said:
That is your opinion and in light of the information provided by operations planning concerning the proposed changes to the B/49, therefore it can be stated that your comment represents just one person's views: yours. The reason that I posted the Ocean - Flatbush terminal is there are three other bus routes that terminate there, the B/16, 43 and the B/48 and the B/48 on Franklin parallels the B/49 running southbound from Fulton Street to Empire Boulevard. The fact that it terminates at the B, Q and S subway lines is extremely helpful in terms of a delay on the subway.
The question that I have is their supervision at that point that the fellow posters have raised about the B/49 that can help to make the service more reliable? I am more interested in the views of those who live in the community where you want to extend the route and those of my fellow posters who ride the B/49 as it will enable operations planning to gauge whether your suggestion merits consideration if at all.
There is virtually no supervision at all from what I can see, and sometimes the dispatchers actually make things worse.
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1 hour ago, Interested Rider said:
I have to agree with you as to the service at the northern end. My reading on the proposed changes for the B/49 is that the MTA does not know what to do with it as it is too far from either the Ulmer Park or Flatbush garages and Operations Planning is looking for a place where there is supervision for the route. The problem is that the route has always been an outlier from trolley days when trolley ran empty from the barn on Hegeman and Rockaway Avenues to Rogers Avenue was where it went into service. When it was converted to a bus route, it ran out of the West 5th Street garage which closed on 7/26/60 with the opening of the Fresh Pond garage when it was transferred to Flatbush In the 1960'she change to one way streets from two way streets did not help the route. There is a picture in one of the books on Brooklyn trolleys that I own which shows three Ocean Avenue trolleys going in the same direction at Rogers and Flatbush Avenues in the 1940's.
I usually do not like to propose route changes on routes that I really do not ride but I it is my opinion that the B/49 should operate on Ocean Avenue to Avenue J and then follow the B/11 route to the junction and terminate there. My reasoning is based on that it will provide riders with transfers to the B/44 local and select bus routes which it is my opinion which is what operations planning wants to do anyway.
Another alternative is to keep the B/49 on Ocean Avenue to the Prospect Park B,Q, Station and terminate it there. The B/48 starts there and it could provide alternative service.
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.
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, wouldn't it be better to just have the Avenue U-Flushing Avenue trips be extended to Ocean Parkway-Avenue Z whereas the Washington Plaza trips continue to run the current full route all the way down to Knapp Street?
Capital Projects have been postponed until further notice.
Beyond Speed Limits
in Roads, Bridges and Tunnels
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Slower bus service and longer waits for buses are conveniently omitted from the discussion.