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  1. Probably not, but ridership at St. Albans is definitely higher now than it was pre-Atlantic Ticket. People are clearly willing to pay a bit more (if they can afford it) for a faster and more comfortable commute.
  2. I'm glad to hear that it's opening, but definitely quite disappointed that it's happening while I'm away in London for three months! Hopefully the LIRR concourse doesn't turn into a homeless colony by April. I guess my surprise run-in with a certain famous London transport personality earlier this month was my consolation prize after all...
  3. That's always been the intent. if you look at the fine print on a couple of the proposed changes, you'll notice mentions of fare reciprocity. One of the goals of the redesign was to give Bee-Line passengers access to Metro-North services in Westchester for $2.75, hence a lot of the trimmings up north. The 77 will be kept if the MTA refuses such an agreement.
  4. Where would they have these maps available besides on the buses? Apparently 3 Stone Street is only open by appointment these days, so that's out of the question, and I don't think that the Transit Museum annex in Grand Central stocks MTA maps anymore. Big changes like these should obviously have the MTA going all-out on making these available to riders, even in the digital age.
  5. I'm currently listening to the scanner and it seems that they've triangulated the suspect to a homeless shelter on 49th Street between 2nd and 3rd. If this does turn out to be a case of a homeless individual conducting a violent attack, the narrative about subway safety is going to get even more intense. Update: The scanner seems to have gone quiet about that. False lead, perhaps...? Update 2: Scanner is now saying that man who fit the description ran into the Carroll Street on the . Goes to show how fluid the situation is.
  6. Hopefully all of the injured recover and the perp is brought to justice.
  7. A lot of these service increases just bring service levels (mostly) back to where they were pre-pandemic. For instance, the n32 always operated every 30 minutes on Sunday until 2020, and Saturday service on the n31/n32 was traditionally every 20 minutes combined.
  8. I'm not surprised by that - Wildwood seems to be relatively poor and dense, all of the county offices are in Cape May Court House, and Rio Grande is home to a large concentration of big box stores.
  9. Last week (12/29), I used the free round-trip ticket from New York to Cape May which I received as part of their holiday promotion on MyTix. Overall, the buses were clean and on-time (the Atlantic City bus station is definitely not though - someone tried to sell me meth there during my short layover on the return trip). The 319 was busier than I expected and the quality of service is that of a standard intercity coach, with bathroom facilities and luggage storage underneath the vehicle. The 552 (Atlantic City to Cape May) bus was significantly more interesting than the 319, not just in terms of scenery, but also because it felt like three separate routes which have little to no relationship. The northern half of the route, which is an express service from Atlantic City to Cape May Court House with one intermediate stop at a park-and-ride only accessible via car, carried air on both of my trips - there were only one or two other passengers on board on this leg (excluding myself) in either direction. The middle leg between Cape May Court House and Wildwood was the most intensely used in both directions, and was actually pretty full going northbound. Ridership between Wildwood and Cape May was roughly what I expected for a semi-rural route.
  10. Easily the n57 and the Port Washington Shuttle. As far as I'm concerned, the former has a completely different ridership base than the rest of the network and is not a "socially necessary" service, and therefore should be the first service eliminated in a time of crisis. I can also see the n26 getting cut if the Queens bus redesign does end up with an MTA route serving North Shore Hospital, which would essentially kill its primary reason to exist.
  11. I think NICE will be fine. I don't think that Blakeman, much like the majority of Nassau residents, really thinks much about NICE at all, and therefore won't go out of his way to slice it into tiny pieces.
  12. I chose not to respond because it wouldn't properly answer your question.
  13. On Wednesday, I had the benefit of listening to Westchester's transportation planning director discuss Bee-Line and the ongoing bus redesign in a graduate school guest lecture. There are some really, really cool things that Bee-Line is looking at, but I'm not going to specify, since the information is not supposed to be public... yet. I can however tell that weekend ridership on Bee-Line is nearly back to normal and that overall ridership is roughly three-fourths of what it was pre-pandemic.
  14. I don't think people going to Islanders games will ever decide to take a bus. This works well for NICE, because transporting middle-class sports fans to games isn't exactly their target demographic and they'd rather provide service where it is needed most.
  15. It's not that Flixbus has a lot of money - it's that First was really desperate to offload Greyhound from its portfolio.
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