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Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bus. Show all posts
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The 2021 farebox numbers

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Alexander asked on Twitter about the series of posts I did on farebox recovery ratios reported to the United States National Transit Data...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Did the Atlantic Ticket accomplish anything?

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In June the Long Island Railroad instituted an "Atlantic Ticket" for people traveling on weekdays between southeast Queens and st...
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Sunday, July 15, 2018

A better express bus map

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Express buses are easy in New York City. Just walk over to your express bus stop at the usual time and wait. Eventually the bus will arri...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Transmillennial NYC?

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A while back I was arguing with someone about "Bus Rapid Transit," and they suggested that New York should emulate the system used...
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Sunday, January 28, 2018

Stroller bloat on the subways

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If you follow transportation politics you’ve heard of induced demand, a principle that activists have been invoking for decades to oppose ro...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

The problem with offset bus lanes

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In recent posts I’ve talked about how transit needs dedicated lanes , and how on a hundred foot avenue you don’t want to take a lane away fr...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

The challenge of curbside transit lanes

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Back in May I argued that we should be talking about improving surface transit even for avenues with subways or els, for three reasons. Fi...
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Monday, June 19, 2017

How we get safer crosstown streets

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The killing of Citibike rider Dan Hanegby by a Short Line bus driver on West Twenty-Sixth Street this week highlighted a number of critica...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

Long distance coaches should carry bikes

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Someone got a bike on a Chinatown bus. Photo: Craig Lebowitz / Wikimedia. A couple of years ago I was in Penn Station and heard an announ...
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Friday, January 27, 2017

Do we need the Port Authority Bus Terminal?

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In 2015 I talked about the proposal to build a new bus terminal in downtown Flushing, and came up with the following list of six features. ...
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Friday, May 20, 2016

The safety and comfort of ridesharing

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"It’s so 2015," Vogue writer Karley Sciortino's friend said to her in Los Angeles last year. "This girl I know just fucke...
Friday, March 25, 2016

Transportation values are arbitrary - somewhat

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This has been sitting in my queue for years, possibly in response to this post by Engineer Scotty , and tonight I realized it was pretty muc...
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Monday, November 9, 2015

The anti-bus terminal

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The Department of City Planning thinks it would be a good idea to have a bus terminal in the new "Flushing West" district that th...
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Friday, July 10, 2015

No, e-carpooling will not replace fixed-route buses

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A lot of people have been talking about "microtransit" lately - sometimes meaning shared e-hailing services like Uberpool and Lyft...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

Who's getting out of the way of the buses?

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The Transit Workers' Union Local 100 has been campaigning against New York's recently enacted Right of Way law, which gives the pol...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

To Save Money on Marketing Buses, Try Running Enough Buses

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I like bus improvements. I hate Governor Cuomo's terrible proposal to run an elevated "AirTrain" from Willets Point to LaGuar...
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