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Showing posts with label jitney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jitney. Show all posts
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Long Distance Jitneys to Pennsylvania

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VIP Express Transportation provides service every two hours between Upper Manhattan, Paterson and the Poconos It's another guest post...
Friday, February 26, 2016

The Via experience

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Here in New York when people talk about "microtransit," they usually mean Uberpool or Lyftline , and those are the services I'...
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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Monday, September 2, 2013

Take the Chinatown Van to the U.S. Open

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There were some chuckles on my Twitter feed over the Times article about U.S. Open champion tennis players getting stuck in traffic as the...
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Monday, November 5, 2012

The disaster of New Jersey's emergency transit plan

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New Jersey's transportation infrastructure is in crisis. New Jersey Transit told Businessweek that 257 rail cars and 65 engines (23% a...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012

If the MTA doesn't want to take you to work...

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I've got so much to say in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy that I'm posting twice in one night. In my last post I didn't incl...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

The wrong lessons to take from the livery van failure

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In his frustrating blog post from June about the "failure" of Chinatown buses, Will Doig also alleged that local private van ser...
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Saturday, August 11, 2012

Frequent transit in Hudson County, New Jersey

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A common complaint about transit in New Jersey is that there is no official map with bus lines. New Jersey Transit provides maps of its com...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Chinese names for New York neighborhoods

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Here is a list of New York neighborhoods, streets and suburbs with significant Chinese populations, with their names in Simplfied Chinese wr...
Monday, May 7, 2012

Investing in private buses

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If you take "dollar vans" in the New York area, you'll notice an obvious difference between the ones that run on Flatbush, the...
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Beyond thick and thin markets for transit

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In their extremely useful paper on private bus transit ( PDF ), Daniel Klein, Adrian Moore and Binyam Reja give us the concepts of "thi...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Learning from the failure of the livery van program

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Earlier this week, Taxi and Limousine Commission Chair David Yassky acknowledged that the Commission's plan to run vans on five abandon...
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Thursday, October 14, 2010

Transportation myopia

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I've been writing this blog for over three years now, and there have been many issues that have come up repeatedly. There is one partic...
Saturday, October 2, 2010

Van operators know how to sell

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Yesterday afternoon I was walking down Sutphin Boulevard when I heard a man shout "Six!" Other men nearby were saying the same th...
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

What you get when you make hasty generalizations

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On Monday I pointed you to a Times op-ed by Elliott Sclar and Robert Paaswell, and observed that they chose to focus on the private transit...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

More ivory tower nonsense

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Yesterday I told you about a very sloppy Times op-ed by Elliott Sclar and Robert Paaswell. The authors link private jitney service to thi...
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Monday, September 27, 2010

Under Sclar and Paaswell's noses

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On Friday the Times ran an op-ed piece by Elliott Sclar and Robert Paaswell against the City's pilot private van project. or at least ...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

The vans do exist!

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I got an email yesterday from an anonymous reader : Today I decided to take the Q79 up to Panera Bread in Douglaston and do a little work on...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Who's prepared for a loss leader?

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Yesterday I observed that the new pilot van project is shaping up to be a bust because (a) nobody's marketing it, and (b) the vans aren...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Adrift without an anchor

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The vans really are MIA. I realized yesterday that I have not yet actually seen an official "Group Ride Vehicle" on the street. ...
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