MTA's 4-year plan: Fare and toll hikes in January, pay freezes for workers

[TwoTimer]

I think that has to do with the lack of affordability for taxis now. Its difficult to find a taxi ride that don't cost $8 to $10 or more excluding tips (I don't tip anymore cause these new rates were established in the $4 gas climate, and they still were charging these rates when gas went back down to 2.50).

 

Also, to cut the on weekends means the is local end to end. There is no ( on weekends.

[NX Express]

Also, to cut the on weekends means the is local end to end. There is no ( on weekends.

 

Except between Canal Street and Columbus Circle. Or. maybe the can be local on CPW weekends and the can be express there.

[Concourse Express]

Reading it here, I'm not sure that many savings that have not already been wrung out from subways can be wrung out, except perhaps eliminating the on weekends; would run local in Brooklyn and express in Manhattan unless the was unavailable on 8 Avenue.

 

The buses are from where savings can be wrung.

 

Except between Canal Street and Columbus Circle. Or. maybe the can be local on CPW weekends and the can be express there.

 

NO. There is too much demand along 8th Ave CBD to ax the , and insufficient demand along CPW for two local services. Additionally, running the local without adding trains stretches the (D)'s headway (increasing wait times); this is a bad idea - especially when you consider weekend service was already cut.

 

The same can be said for running the local in some parts; running the local in some parts to fill in for the without adding trains stretches the headway (again, resulting in longer wait times on top of the service cuts recently passed).

 

To preserve current headways, you'd have to add more trains - which COSTS MONEY. Additionally, stretching headways (increasing wait time between trains) AND lengthening travel times would discourage ridership; this minimizes the ACTUAL savings realized. For all that, just keep the . My 2¢.

[Roadcruiser1]

This is an idea. Why not decrease night frequencies of trains and close stations with low rider frequencies at night. That might not be such a bad idea having a night train run into a station with either an hour or an hour and a half frequency. From 12 AM to 5 AM. Also if this is possible decrease their length at night. Like this during the night an 8 car train would become a 4 car train. They would recouple during morning rush but stay like that at night.

[SubwayGuy]

This is an idea. Why not decrease night frequencies of trains and close stations with low rider frequencies at night. That might not be such a bad idea having a night train run into a station with either an hour or an hour and a half frequency. From 12 AM to 5 AM. Also if this is possible decrease their length at night. Like this during the night an 8 car train would become a 4 car train. They would recouple during morning rush but stay like that at night.

 

It's not possible because you will spend more cutting the train to prep it for night service, then adding it to get ready for AM rush than you would just leaving it alone.

 

Decreasing night frequency won't do anything either. Those riders RELY on that service to get them where they need to go. What do you expect them to do, make a 1hr commute into a 2hr commute where over 1hr is spent waiting for trains? BAD idea.

 

Subway service simply CANNOT be cut any further and that's a fact. Firing managers, office staff and high paid executives is the only way to go, as is the removal or discontinuation of redundant bus routes or bus routes that have nearby lines, or the shortening of bus routes so that they terminate at locations where they provide a transfer to other bus routes and subways.

[Concourse Express]

It's not possible because you will spend more cutting the train to prep it for night service, then adding it to get ready for AM rush than you would just leaving it alone.

 

Decreasing night frequency won't do anything either. Those riders RELY on that service to get them where they need to go. What do you expect them to do, make a 1hr commute into a 2hr commute where over 1hr is spent waiting for trains? BAD idea.

 

Subway service simply CANNOT be cut any further and that's a fact. Firing managers, office staff and high paid executives is the only way to go, as is the removal or discontinuation of redundant bus routes or bus routes that have nearby lines, or the shortening of bus routes so that they terminate at locations where they provide a transfer to other bus routes and subways.

 

IAWTP; cuts should trim the fat, not the muscle.

[TwoTimer]

That's really not an express between Canal and 59st lol. Wow, 3 stations, and at 50st you dont even get an option to go uptown from there, only down to 42nd to catch the . The while it looks redundant because there's nowhere it goes by itself (like just about every other line off the top of my head), is definitely needed. And like others said, to make a line local is adding crews to the payroll and a few extra trains to keep the headway the way it is.