Comments on: With service cuts looming, community activists mobilize http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/01/10/closings-and-petitions/ A New York City Subway Blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 05:18:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Sacks http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/01/10/closings-and-petitions/#comment-74809 Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Sacks Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:55:47 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1970#comment-74809 My wife and I live in Old Mill Basin. We depend on the B2 bus along with countless others due to the fact that the B100 only runs unil 1AM, six days a week. If you come back from the city after 1AM, you are out of luck. The only way to get home is via car service, depending how far in the Basin you live, it will cost anywhere between $10 and $20. Why should anyone have to pay fare for the train and that much for car service? Please keep the B2 running on the weekends, and have them run all night long. My wife and I live in Old Mill Basin.
We depend on the B2 bus along with countless others due to the
fact that the B100 only runs unil 1AM, six days a week.
If you come back from the city after 1AM, you are out of luck.
The only way to get home is via car service, depending how far in the
Basin you live, it will cost anywhere between $10 and $20.
Why should anyone have to pay fare for the train and that much
for car service?
Please keep the B2 running on the weekends, and have them run all night long.

]]> By: AlexB http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/01/10/closings-and-petitions/#comment-58284 AlexB Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:43:39 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1970#comment-58284 I live near the western end of the B71 which travels between Prospect Heights and Carroll Gardens, through Park Slope. It is lightly ridden and infrequent. It already stops running at 10 pm, and they are planning to cut service on the weekend. As it is the only way to get from Carroll Gardens to neighborhoods further east without the long detour of going through downtown Brooklyn, I usually use it when visiting friends on the weekends. When they raised fares last year, they were planning on extending it through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. This would have been extremely useful for me. Depending on how long it took to get through the tunnel, it would have become my primary means of entering Manhattan. It would have been very helpful to tons of people in transit crappy Red Hook and had the potential to draw some downtown Manhattan-bound people off of the always crowded F train. The point of this post? I'm exasperated. Not only can they not run a transit system much better than at a mediocre level, they just seem to want to toy with us. They use promises of better service as carrots for the people when they raise fares and promises of worse service when they are trying to intimidate politicians. I hate this and want it fixed. I live near the western end of the B71 which travels between Prospect Heights and Carroll Gardens, through Park Slope. It is lightly ridden and infrequent. It already stops running at 10 pm, and they are planning to cut service on the weekend. As it is the only way to get from Carroll Gardens to neighborhoods further east without the long detour of going through downtown Brooklyn, I usually use it when visiting friends on the weekends.

When they raised fares last year, they were planning on extending it through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel. This would have been extremely useful for me. Depending on how long it took to get through the tunnel, it would have become my primary means of entering Manhattan. It would have been very helpful to tons of people in transit crappy Red Hook and had the potential to draw some downtown Manhattan-bound people off of the always crowded F train.

The point of this post? I’m exasperated. Not only can they not run a transit system much better than at a mediocre level, they just seem to want to toy with us. They use promises of better service as carrots for the people when they raise fares and promises of worse service when they are trying to intimidate politicians. I hate this and want it fixed.

]]> By: Cap'n Transit http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/01/10/closings-and-petitions/#comment-58234 Cap'n Transit Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:55:28 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1970#comment-58234 The Empire State Transportation Alliance seems to be the only group that's actually trying to hold the Legislature's feet to the fire. They have no website, but here's <a href="http://capntransit.blogspot.com/2009/01/press-release-empire-state.html" rel="nofollow">a press release</a> that they sent me this evening. The Empire State Transportation Alliance seems to be the only group that’s actually trying to hold the Legislature’s feet to the fire. They have no website, but here’s a press release that they sent me this evening.

]]> By: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » The theory behind the station agents http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/01/10/closings-and-petitions/#comment-58220 Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » The theory behind the station agents Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:46:24 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1970#comment-58220 [...] the riding public gears up to protest the impending service cuts and fare hikes, the station agent elimination plan is starting to become a major community issue. The fight, [...] [...] the riding public gears up to protest the impending service cuts and fare hikes, the station agent elimination plan is starting to become a major community issue. The fight, [...]

]]> By: Look, Ma, No Pants Day! - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/01/10/closings-and-petitions/#comment-58217 Look, Ma, No Pants Day! - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:41:18 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=1970#comment-58217 [...] Local activist groups are springing to action to save transportation services that might be cut by the M.T.A.’s budget crisis. [2nd Ave. Sagas] [...] [...] Local activist groups are springing to action to save transportation services that might be cut by the M.T.A.’s budget crisis. [2nd Ave. Sagas] [...]

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