In the MTA video a very manual process is described that doesn’t seem to take into account the obvious, the subway, or the tradeoffs in dollars spent which all seems very strange considering the agency’s financial situation. Currently the Bronx bus network has been redesigned with the other boroughs plans ongoing. But by the 1960’s the city was on its way towards complete public control through the MTA.Ĭurrently the MTA is in the midst of a periodic bus redesign however strangely the MTA bus redesign does not mention subway trains. The history up until the middle of the 20th century is marked by competition from different types of transit and different companies with tradeoffs in routes, fares, and travel times. The bus companies appear to have proposed routes in applications for franchises to the city which were changed or granted based on other transit routes, backroom dealing, and corruption. For busses, the Fifth Avenue Coach Company and its predecessor appear to be the first bus-like transportation in the city starting in 1885 and running along 5th avenue. In 1894 the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad Commissioners laid out routes and franchised to private companies. The New York and Harlem Railroad was the world’s first street railway and was privately funded and designed but with governmental approval. Throughout NYC transit history there is dual control between government and private companies. Present day NYC shows its history in its design Broadway follows a Lenape route and numbered and lettered subway trains are of different incompatible widths because of their separate histories.
Wikipedia has amazingly detailed articles ( here and here) which detail the history of transit in NYC. Is it because I live and work in areas that are close to subway lines? In a constrained and existing system, how should we think about allocating transit routes? In this post I look at using Google Maps directions as a tool for detecting overlapping service and for doing transit planning. I noticed that Google Maps never recommends I take the bus. Why does the M10 Bus Exist if there are multiple faster train lines along the same route? Evaluating bus routes in NYC based on Google Maps directions Intro:
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