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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.

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.

Because they run everything else so well? (Autocorrect tried to change run to ruin. Maybe I should have let it.)

He would have everyone walk from Ave Z and E 15 Street. The walk would be slightly longer since accessing the Voorhies Ave end of the station would no longer be possible. (They already changed the B36 to make it less accessible to the station several years ago.) I am not sure if his proposed change would be any quicker since it is more indirect and traffic on Avenue Z is also heavy, although the street is not narrow. Guider, northbound would be a little shorter than Neptune to C I Ave. It could be investigated however to see if it’s any quicker.

I doubt the swap will go through. There was unanimous opposition to it. The B49 Limited would not be necessary if the B44 SBS were rerouted to Kingsborough during school hours. It would save about 20 minutes for students coming from Crown Heights. Service to the nursing homes needs to be retained during changing of shifts.

I think the B27 is being set up to fail. It doesn’t go to many places and has poor headways. They don’t want any bus service on Smith /Court. After a year, they will just say there s not enough demand to justify the service, If they just discontinue the service today, they are afraid of protests.

I suggested it several times in the local Rockaway papers and each time there was a positive response for it. Also, there was a positive response from Subchat, and the former director of the Queens Study admitted that this was definitely a gap in the system.

A test would be a great idea. Something the MTA does not do. I was thinking of it more for commuters than for people going to the beach.

The B3, B41, 46 and 47 get probably like 90 percent of the usage. Few use the B2 or B9. Of course if the B9 is rerouted, the B2 must be retained. That goes without saying, or the B100 must pass Kings Plaza if the routes are combined. Don’t know why you would say the B3 and B9 would. Be more reliable than the B2. Since it is so much shorter, I would say the reverse is true.

The B9 needs to be rerouted to serve Avenue N to Bergen Beach. The B40 is only necessary during rush hours and overnight hours. It is empty during the day along Avenue N

The B40 is just a cutback of 50 percent of B41 service to Downtown Brooklyn.

https://qns.com/2024/01/mta-queens-bus-network-redesign-plan-under-fire/?fbclid=IwAR00dFzR-dnYN7V0c3xIYl5IEKc9LNztPc1qIQQ-SaQVvgVXSNGWsDY9SNc Queens Advocates speak out.

What are you talking about. I have always recommended more frequent overnight service.

Two more letters in the Queens Chronicle: https://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/more-bus-plan-issues/article_f3d1fedc-a4f6-11ee-ac09-afdc3d7c62bb.html https://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/devil-in-bus-details/article_c1be3ed8-a4f6-11ee-9a6a-5fb52cf14208.html

Who is making that assumption? What I was saying is that someone who works at odd hours cannot use public transportation. It isn’t fair to ask him or her to wait 60 minutes for a bus.

I had an argument with an MTA official about 50 years ago. He said the MTA was guilty of not advertising the services enough that they provide. I responded that you first have to improve the product before you advertise, because if the service is bad, people won’t return.

Cycling is no solution. For one thing, it is highly weather dependent. Most will not use it for long daily trips no matter what the infrastructure is. For many trips, cars are a necessity especially if you are hauling more than you can fit in a bicycle basket. Mass transit also has its limitations and can’t be used for many trips, but that does not mean we shouldn’t invest in it. Investing in cycling only encourages more of it and reduces road capacity for other vehicles increasing congestion. Cars and bike don’t mix and the more we encourage bikes, the higher the fatalities will be. Maybe we need to place higher taxes on these larger vehicles?

Punishing illegal activity is only fair when it really is illegal, not when speed limits are unrealistically low. Some are now pushing for 20 mph speed limits. Did you know that have the revenue made on red light cameras are by those going past one at a fraction of a second after the light turns red, because there is zero lenience? Those are not people flagrantly ignoring the law but those who have miscalculated when the light will turn red since it varies by intersection. There would be a half second grace if it wasn’t purely for revenue reasons, not safety.

Tell your elected officials. Posting here accomplishes nothing.

Remember when the IG showed all the corruption involved for 2 Broadway? He was immediately replaced.

It discusses inefficiency and waste through the MTA, Buses as well as subways, so it could be filed under either. I mention the employee suggestion programs which were a great opportunity to reduce costs without impacting service. Some departments were very ameniable to suggestions such as where I worked, the Central Electtonics Shop which approved like 50 suggestions each year of the hundreds submitted. Employees felt that nine months was too long to wait for a response, so we started our own program which I oversaw. Although we could not give employees more than $100, still many suggestions were approved saving many thousands of dollars. Operations Planning on the other hand, rejected virtually ever suggestion submitted, and only approved three per year because of their arrogance that they have all the answers. During my final year I submitted about sixty suggestions, all of which were rejected, most with non-sensical reasons. There was a useless rubber stamp appeal process. I have about 300 pages with suggestions and responses.

https://www.qchron.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editor/mta-inefficiency-waste/article_ca6e696a-99c3-11ee-9409-3fbf6bd975d0.html

The B57 is still in the plan.

The only way to know for sure is to try it. Commuters would use it heavily if they could park in Riis Park for free and pick up the bus there, because the trip on the A train takes much longer.

They are not going there because it is a two hour trip, but like 45 minutes by car. The purpose of mass transit in a densely populated area is to allow you to get to places in reasonable amounts of time for employment opportunities. If you can’t get to JFK, you won’t try to get a job there for example.