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Same reason.

Basically, they want to emphasize that once trains have passed Jamaica in either direction, they might run up to three minutes earlier than the scheduled time, because the majority of boarding passengers would already be on the train.

It would be around a mile or so to the Ampere station. For reference, the Broad Street station is a little under two miles from me (and this past Sunday I had the displeasure of having to walk the whole thing...weekend service, especially Sunday service out here is like night and day compared to weekday service...Monday mornings at 8am, the PATH runs every 5 minutes...Sunday mornings at 8am, it's every 35 minutes, and a similar situation for the Bloomfield Avenue buses). Anyway, my walking tolerance is high so I would consider it walkable. I'd add it to my rotation of options (light rail to Newark Penn, bus to Newark Broad, walk to Ampere), but it would likely be one of the back pocket options so to speak. On a side note, I'm shocked at how infrequently the #34 runs in the evenings. When I'm on the PATH, I usually check the MyBusNow app for the next buses to leave Newark Penn, and I'll see a bunch of #1 and #25 buses on the Market Street side, but very rarely any #34s (for either branch, Bloomfield or East Orange/Montclair). Hopefully that's something that changes as part of the redesign. They basically had off-peak round trip fares. (So a one-way would've been full fare regardless). The discount was something like 20-25% compared to two one-way tickets. (But nowadays, they have FlexTicket, which is almost the same thing: 20 tickets for the price of 16, but it's only valid for 30 days from the date of purchase). Here are some old schedules with the fares. https://web.archive.org/web/20030821235840/https://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/r0040.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20051124225032/https://www.njtransit.com/pdf/rail/r0040.pdf

That's only some Main Line trains stopping at those stations. They aren't adding extra physical trains to stop there.

Pretty sure it's officially 55 mph throughout Northern NJ (Garden State Parkway is 65 mph). But you're right, in practice most go 70-75.

Another video on the Ampere station restoration:

I see a car available 2 blocks away. I'll walk the two blocks, pick up the car, drive to the supermarket, drop my groceries off, and then drop off the car and walk back two blocks. Not the end of the world if it's not right at my door. My point is it's cheaper than round-trip cab ride to the supermarket (or whatever destination you are looking to reach).

You mean the #186? (Dumont - Bergenfield - Englewood - Fort Lee - GWB)

Exactly. If a stop is eliminated, people will walk directly to/from the next-closest stop without backtracking. Plus, a good portion of riders are heading to major cross streets (transfer points, large commercial areas, etc) which are pretty much always going to have the stop maintained, so the extra walk (if any) only applies on one end of the trip. No, he has a point on that. If too many people see an increase in total travel time (which isn't balanced out by a similar or greater number seeing decreased travel time), then you'll end up with ridership losses. Or if they plan on drinking and won't be capable of driving their car back. Or if they're stopping at another destination before or after that has hard/expensive parking. Or if there's heavy traffic and the bus has reliable bus lanes (e.g. Parts of Hylan Blvd or Webster Avenue). The other thing is that "available" is subjective, and also not a fixed constant. Somebody may have a car that they share with their spouse or a relative. They could decide to run the errand immediately using mass transit, or wait 2 hours for their spouse/relative to return the car. They could decide whether or not to buy a car based on the comparable trip by mass transit. And of course, calling a taxi/Uber/Lyft can make a vehicle available to you if you're willing to pay the extra cost. (Nowadays, there's even sites where you can rent cars by the hour for fairly cheap prices...a 1 hour rental for $11 might be enough to make a run to the supermarket and pick up a couple of weeks worth of food). Again...making generalizations as to what people may prefer. Yes, those are things you'll get with a car. The question is, will it be worth the cost? (Again, not everybody who has a car "available" necessarily has it sitting in their driveway ready to go). I disagree. See above. And total travel time includes waiting as well. The faster the buses go, the more frequency can be run with the same fleet. That assumption may hold for the first couple of days that the stop is eliminated, but in the long-term, nobody will backtrack to a location that they are fully aware is no longer a bus stop. We've been through the math on this many times before. The total amount of extra travel time is the amount of the extra walking, minus the amount of time that the bus takes to cover the same distance. If the headway is every 30 minutes, and it takes you 2 extra minutes to walk to the new bus stop (while the bus takes 30 seconds to travel that distance), then the chances that a bus passes in the time you are traveling is (2.0 - 0.5) / 30 = 5% That means there is a 95% chance that you will wait zero extra time, and a 5% chance you will miss the bus. The 1.5 minutes is the same amount of time as if you were starting your trip 1.5 minutes further down the side street. As for headways being based on ridership, a lot of these redesigns (not just MTA) are taking the approach that frequency on its own can generate ridership. That's why back in 2019, they added extra off-peak service to the Q6, Q69, S93, B17, and B65 (which actually did lead to some ridership increases on those routes before COVID came and wiped those out).

Peak direction or reverse-peak? (Remember the college peak is basically the opposite of the Manhattan-bound peak) At a glance, it seems like in the afternoon, they pretty much all end in Rutherford, but in the morning, they start at various places (Paterson, Passaic, or Rutherford).

I said using the subway or driving. If the bus is the only available mass transit option, but is slow, then many will drive even if the bus is available. To say it's a myth is overgeneralizing. There's areas where buses are slow and areas where they aren't. There's areas where delays merging back into traffic are significant, and there's areas where they aren't. If they get a lot of feedback for certain stops, they can always restore them.

Do the buses that pass by the terminal but don't actually terminate there actually have to use the terminal? It defeats the purpose of combining them to create a one-seat ride if the bus has to pull into the bay and back out just to come around the block.

And part of the reason the average bus trip is so short is because they're so slow that most people making longer trips end up using the subway or driving. If buses were to be sped up, logic would dictate that the average would shift upward (to the exact extent is yet to be determined)

I-278 is the Bruckner...you've seen it used because that's what it is. He mentioned the Bruckner as the termination point of I-87. The area in question is between I-278 (Bruckner Expressway) and I-95 (Cross-Bronx Expressway). That being said, it was a simple typo transposing the two numbers (278 vs. 287). I'm pretty sure he knows that I-278 is the Bruckner Expressway (and also the BQE, Gowanus Expressway, and Staten Island Expressway).

Virtual and In-Person Meetings Will Inform The Public and Gather Feedback On Major Improvements To Walter Rand Transportation Center FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 26, 2023 Contact: Press Office 973-491-7078 CAMDEN, NJ – NJ TRANSIT will host virtual and in-person informational sessions as it continues to advance a reimagining of the Walter Rand Transportation Center (WRTC) in Camden. The Murphy Administration has committed $250 million to upgrade and enlarge the facility. NJ TRANSIT representatives will disseminate information about the project to attendees, and also allocate time for public comment sessions. The virtual meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on Monday January 30th , the in-person meeting will take place on January 30th at 6 p.m. at the Cooper Medical School of Rowan University located at 401 South Broadway, Camden, NJ. Registration can be completed by phone or e-mail. To register for the virtual session, click the following link: bit.ly/NJT_WRTCinfo. To register for the in-person session by phone or e-mail, call (856) 757-9154 or send an e-mail to camdencpinc@camdencpinc.com. FREE parking will be available in the adjacent parking garage directly behind the Medical School located at 520 Benson Street, Camden, NJ. The WRTC Improvement Project seeks to upgrade and enlarge the existing facility to accommodate the development renaissance currently underway in the City of Camden. It is currently contemplated that the project will be constructed on the existing site in Camden. With the emergence of a burgeoning educational and healthcare corridor in the downtown area and vicinity, a multi-million-dollar redevelopment of the nearby waterfront is being proposed to the west of downtown and the headquarters for both the Campbell Soup Company and Subaru of America to the east. The WRTC is envisioned to be replaced and expanded to accommodate growth throughout Camden County. The project would ultimately replace the existing facility with an expanded multi-purpose transit center that will provide an improved link for transportation in South Jersey. The new center would better accommodate the 26 bus lines that serve the facility; provide improved intermodal connectivity with the PATCO Speedline subway and the River LINE light rail; support intercity independent bus services; and provide additional parking, administrative offices, and value capture retail opportunities to the adjacent growing educational and healthcare corridor. It would also provide an opportunity for integration with zero-emissions buses.

I think the majority of those people are going to NJ Transit. (Either the trains at 34th Street/Penn Station, or the buses at 42nd Street/PABT). It'll definitely take some riders off the (in both directions, towards Penn Station and towards Jamaica), but I don't think the difference will be that much.

Some of my thoughts (most of which I've mentioned over here) in YouTube form:

My guess is it's probably some state law saying that because it's an operation that primarily serves NY residents, Metro-North needs to be involved. Apparently the NYC Sewage Department has a building out in Port Jervis: https://goo.gl/maps/VmvfDoDTLb9dByDU7

The station is solidly on the NY side of the border, pretty much in the middle of the town. I think it has more to do with the yard being used for NJT operations, combined with the fact that the majority of trains serving that station are non-contracted (to Metro-North) NJT trains.

Part of the problem is the fare increments are increments of $0.05 rather than $0.20. So in addition to giving dollars and quarters as change, you're also giving nickels and dimes.

Mostly online Zoom meetings for the time being. (The Community Board and MTA ones). There is one tonight for Bushwick. https://new.mta.info/project/brooklyn-bus-network-redesign https://mta.zoom.us/j/87221443989?pwd=L014cXlGQittY2pML3pSNlk1UTVjdz09

The schedule should be the same as Day After Thanksgiving: http://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://new.mta.info/document/99766

So I watched the video on double speed. At 1:41:00, the union rep spoke, and gave a pretty crappy explanation of what interlining is and why the MTA shouldn't do it. (He made it seem like the trips on the second route occur always occur after the meal break, and completely ignored that if the bus is late on the first trip, then any associated trips connected to that are also late, regardless of whether they are on the same route or a different route). He also talked about how certain communities were supposedly being "redlined" which is just adding a conspiracy theory for the sake of it. (Aren't they planning some multi-billion dollar project near Broadway Junction or something? There's million dollar homes in Brownsville...I don't think anywhere in Brooklyn is off-limits for gentrification).

What are you talking about? Are you seriously saying that people are selfish for choosing to use mass transit to get to/from the arena? Maybe you'd prefer that they drive so that people on the n6 can get stuck in even more traffic and miss even more of their connections.

I think the waiver expires 2/15/23 if I'm not mistaken. So if the date is anything past that point they need to have the full system installed.