Comments on: New bus shelters installed on doomed routes http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/04/17/dot-cemusa-install-new-shelters-on-doomed-routes/ A New York City Subway Blog Fri, 25 May 2012 20:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Quora http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/04/17/dot-cemusa-install-new-shelters-on-doomed-routes/#comment-238389 Quora Sat, 07 Jan 2012 03:36:53 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=2711#comment-238389 <strong>What are some examples of beautiful public transit systems?...</strong> By beautiful, I assume you mean physically beautiful. I would say another type of "beauty" in a public transit system would be in its efficiency, its ability to work as a well-oiled machine. Interestingly, many systems that are beautiful physically a... What are some examples of beautiful public transit systems?…

By beautiful, I assume you mean physically beautiful. I would say another type of “beauty” in a public transit system would be in its efficiency, its ability to work as a well-oiled machine. Interestingly, many systems that are beautiful physically a…

]]> By: herenthere http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/04/17/dot-cemusa-install-new-shelters-on-doomed-routes/#comment-60185 herenthere Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:46:04 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=2711#comment-60185 In the event the lines are eliminated, two unintended uses for it come to mind. Place for passersby to sit or homeless shelters. In the event the lines are eliminated, two unintended uses for it come to mind. Place for passersby to sit or homeless shelters.

]]> By: rhywun http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/04/17/dot-cemusa-install-new-shelters-on-doomed-routes/#comment-60178 rhywun Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:36:17 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=2711#comment-60178 I continue to believe there will be no service cuts--the savings just isn't there--so it's OK by me if they continue with the shelters. I continue to believe there will be no service cuts–the savings just isn’t there–so it’s OK by me if they continue with the shelters.

]]> By: Peter http://secondavenuesagas.com/2009/04/17/dot-cemusa-install-new-shelters-on-doomed-routes/#comment-60177 Peter Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:05:40 +0000 http://secondavenuesagas.com/?p=2711#comment-60177 There may be no buses, but the real function of the 'bus shelters', revenue from the advertising, will continue to roll into Cemus's bank account, It is the same way that 'telephone booths' remain on busy streets, sometimes without even having functional telephones in them. Cemusa has also erected scores of new newsstands in midtown, each with huge illuminated advertisements worth tens of thousands of dollars a month, none of which the actual newsstand operator - struggling to profit from sticks of Juicy Fruit - ever see. There may be no buses, but the real function of the ‘bus shelters’, revenue from the advertising, will continue to roll into Cemus’s bank account, It is the same way that ‘telephone booths’ remain on busy streets, sometimes without even having functional telephones in them.
Cemusa has also erected scores of new newsstands in midtown, each with huge illuminated advertisements worth tens of thousands of dollars a month, none of which the actual newsstand operator – struggling to profit from sticks of Juicy Fruit – ever see.

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