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Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Question: Is there a limit of capacity in a T station? (As there is inside trains, buses,...) I ask because DTX has always been a mess, but in the last few weeks, when I transfer @5:30pm form RL South to OL South, it feels like it is getting out of...

Thanks for the link! Nice blog. I take from this sentence "Buses will enter from the south and exit to the north." that the 39 will do as the 38 does now: Turn left (East) coming from the North. The issue I have is that there is no light there (as far as I can see in the digram) and the 39 will...

Sorry if this has been answered before, but, looking at the images posted in this tread I don't understand how the 39 bus route is going to work at Forest Hills in the future. Any ideas?

My words were not carefully chosen. Probably was better to say that last week has brought to the foreground the problems with transportation. The reactions to that debate were not my own, I was just pointing out what I have seen. But I disagree that this debacle is not relevant. The fact that...

This week has shown that this city is not up to minimum standards in many ways. One way to look at the olympics is as an opportunity to get things in order, the other is to see it as a wasted effort. I have seen both opinions these past days.

I think that is what is happening with the London stadium. West Ham will play there in less than 2 years. They even have a countdown page: http://www.olympicstadium.whufc.com/ What have they done that cannot be done here?

One of my favorite parts of the proposal.

But that is true about almost every sport in the Olympic program, and people watch anyway! You guys keep referring to Olympic golf, but it is not about that, it is about the Olympics, period. It is the same with tennis (almost exactly). The Olympics are not the top of the season... but you still...

We agree on this one, just not on the direction. As a golf tournament, both the Ryder Cup and the Majors are more important. As an event in general, it is not even close. Not in the same ball park, not the same galaxy. The Olympics are the number 1 event in the world. Short of the Country Club...

I suppose that rules out the Ryder Cup too... Oh, wait! If somebody argues against the Country Club wanting to host the Olympics they will have to explain '99 before. Same players, same (roughly) amount of time, same (roughly) prestige out of it, same preparation,...

1) I think there are actually 3 parking lots. Up, Down and a very big municipal lot behind the drive-through bank. We could make some numbers but the lower lot could be enough for bus transfers taking into account that some lines will disappear altogether and some will still go to Forest Hills...

I drive every morning through there and that is the case. The worst thing is that two lanes could probably handle the traffic OK, but you only need the line of people waiting to get into the lot to get long enough and it becomes a shitshow. Every morning I mentally redesign the entrance to the...

I am happy to see the last posts talking about this very same thing. The only reason I didn't mention it myself before is that the title is "The next Big project". I just don't thing it is that big (somebody mentioned numbers before) and it makes too much sense.

But that is clearly not true for the FH - RV strip. Those 27 buses per hour don't cover any extra area. Once that you go beyond RV the bus routes open like a fan and behave as what they are: buses. Serving a big area with lower ridership. The more I know about this city the more I have to...

I think we have made that perfectly clear in previous pages (maybe even in this one). There is a need for Buses along Washington Street. Different people have suggested different solutions, but there is certainly NO need for 27 (approx.) buses per hour as it is the case now. There are 9 lines...

Thanks for the link. It is awesome. If I manage to get my head around the numbers I'll show the new results.

OK, done! With OLX ending in RV the savings go (in %): 22 (raw) ---> 27 (weighted) ---> 29 (weighted. No 34E) Ending in WRox: 42 ---> 49 ---> 53 Basically the same. The fact that 34 runs much more often that the other lines (9 min @ around 8am) and that the savings in that route are above...

The next step is to calculate the weighted numbers. It is not the same saving 35% in the 34 than the same number in the 50. How frequent it is has a massive importance.

I have been doing some numbers for a possible OLX. What I have done is measure the length of the bus lines that share the Forest Hills - Roslindale Village part (30, 34, 34E, 35, 36, 37, 40, 50, 51. Google maps, not very accurate but I don't think it matters). Then I have recalculated their...

Thank you for the tip, I didn't know where to get the data! The results are very much as expected. Basically, an OLX to RV will be great for lines 30,34,34E,35,36,37,40,40 and 51 with shorter routes and faster connections with the OL (the main use of all of them). Of the possible loss of...