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(Lack Of) Vision42: NY Transit

Unread postby BabyPeanut » Mon 31 Oct 2005, 10:58:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.vision42.org/]vision42 is a citizens' initiative to re-imagine and upgrade surface transit in Midtown Manhattan, with a low-floor light rail line running river-to-river along 42nd Street within a landscaped pedestrian boulevard. It is sponsored by the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility, a New York-based not-for-profit corporation. (link)[/url]
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.livejournal.com/community/peak_oil/222255.html?thread=1438767#t1438767]I'm also not sure why they chose 42nd Street, given that the 7 train already makes three stops along it. There are very few east-west streets in Manhattan with crosstown subways: 59th (kind of), 42nd, and 14th. Why not do it on 34th, which is more of a shopping street than 42nd, includes high-traffic areas like Madison Square Garden, Penn Station, and Herald Square, and whose only crosstown option is the slowest bus route in the city? (link)[/url]
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.straphangers.org/pokeyaward/release05.html]Fourth-Annual “Pokeys” Awarded for Slowest City Buses (link)[/url]
...skip... The winner of the 2005 Pokey is...the M34 cross-town, for a second year. The M34 averaged 3.4 miles per hour at 12 p.m., close to the 3.0 m.p.h. maintained by the average person walking.
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Re: (Lack Of) Vision42

Unread postby some_guy282 » Mon 31 Oct 2005, 11:33:44

The NY Daily News recently did a race between the M34 and one of its reporters. The reporter followed along on foot. The bus beat him to the finish by about 40 seconds.
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