ArgyleDSL
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Flushing, NY
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Re: Funniest Thing You've Ever Seen In the Subway
Funniest thing i read today was about bus service:
"Enduring crush-level crowding and being unable to board jam-packed buses "does not systemically occur" on routes, NYC Transit countered in a statement."
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha
»www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/07···de_.html
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KCrimson
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July 8th, @07:23PM
| Sorry - but I must editorialize on that last overcrowed bus post..
I'm not an everyday bus rider, but I use them on average of perhaps 5 or 10 times each month, and my daughter relies on them to get to school and work each day. For the past few years I've never had to let a bus pass because it was too full. I could always at the very least squeeze on - more likely than not I got a seat within a few minutes, or reached my destination before it became unbearable.
On the other hand, I witness daily a barrage of dollar vans that clog the bus stops with illegal stops, cause other drivers to veer around them, and who stop with no concern for safety and courtesy - generally making a complete nuisance of themselves. People get on these vans, some with out-of-state license plates, NONE with the city's permission to take non-scheduled street pickups (even those with TLC plates can NOT pick up at bus stops according to the law), with absolutely ZERO second-thought. This causes decreased ridership of the buses, and decreased ridership is supposed to relate directly to decreased SPENDING on the buses. These dollar vans routes didn't occur because of too-few buses - the vans run in the middle of the afternoon when buses like the B41 runs 1/2 empty (and the B-41 is a MAJOR route in Brooklyn - its the Flatbush Ave. bus). These people are just too lazy or in too much of a hurry to wait 5 minutes for the next B41 to arrive - and it DOES run very frequently.
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