@BrooklynBus

Former Director of Bus Planning, MTA NYCT

 Brooklyn
bklyner.com/mtas-brooklyn-bus-network-redesign-misses-mark/
Joined October 2009
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The @NYC_DOT has sabotaged our streets by reducing traffic lanes, changing traffic signals, closing streets, and building bike lanes along major roads that don’t need them. This has had devastating consequences as EMS response times have increased 41%. gothamist.com/news/nyc-ambul…

NYC ambulance response times have grown 41% as life-threatening calls rise

A city comptroller’s report points to ambulance maintenance problems and low pay for EMTs and paramedics as factors contributing to longer waits.

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Parents have responsibilities. When I was 5, my parents taught me not to step off the curb. I was only allowed on 1 side street with little traffic. Are they still taught that today? We shouldn’t have to drive at 15 mph just because a kid might step out from between parked cars.
Car-lite NYC@BetterR0adsOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
I bet you wouldn’t feel that way if your kid was one of those 205.
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No, but I wouldn’t be happy if I had to rely on limited street parking. You don’t get to choose if it’s against zoning laws and you don’t get a variance.
Stefan McGrath@StefanMcGrathOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Do you own the property on which that condo is going up? No? Then too bad. I know in your communist utopia you get to tell others what to do with their property, but in capitalism I get to choose what I build on my land.
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What do you mean?
Car-lite NYC@BetterR0adsOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Why don’t you reply in line?
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If someone moves into a low density neighborhood, they have the right to assume it will remain that for the foreseeable future. I am not choosing where others have to live. They can live in a high density area if that is their preference.
Tasteless Alex@TastelessAlexOct 12
You have the right to choose to live in a low density neighborhood. You do not have the right to keep it a low density neighborhood and choose for others where they have to live
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Yes.
Car-lite NYC@BetterR0adsOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
This you? xitter.cf/BrooklynBus/status/210…
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If you don’t quote what you are saying, how is someone supposed to know. Obviously many seniors can ride the bus, but many can’t.
BD08o40@B840D0oOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
I gather you don't know how threads work here? I was responding to this claim: "If you have a senior citizen or anyone disabled at home, you will need a car. Period."
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Sorry. Someone else said that anywhere the subway network is dense, we should have high density housing.
BD08o40@B840D0oOct 12
Replying to @BetterR0ads @BrooklynBus
He thinks I proposed it, when in fact it's his own red herring.
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And if eliminating a stop increases overcrowding, the minute or two saved is negated by longer dwell times.
HamsterBaller@HamsterBal38417Oct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Decreasing subway stops increases service speed. There’s such a thing as stop overcrowding
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I answered that already. If every time a single family home is demolished and replaced with a six family condo, that is forcing density on us.
FakeGermaansk@FakeGermaanskOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
How is density forced on anyone?
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Must explain what?
BD08o40@B840D0oOct 12
Replying to @3ExpressoShots @BrooklynBus
That must explain why I see so many elderly New Yorkers on the bus.
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No one has proposed what?
Car-lite NYC@BetterR0adsOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
No one has proposed that. The proposal is to give property owners greater development rights.
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Totally disagree. There are times when bus is the best option and other times when a car is the best option. Totally not mutually exclusive. We need both.
big_pedestrian@big_pedestrianOct 12
Maps of where NYC residents own cars and where they are hit by them are the reverse of each other and each car uses about as much space as a human teenager. So yea, in NEW YORK CITY pro car and pro bus are mutually exclusive. Also motorists should pay to store their own property.
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First they want to eliminate bus stops, and now subway stations. We should be opening entrances that have been closed since the seventies to reduce walking distances, not increasing them.
Charlie@cqgatorOct 12
My kind of content…. WE NEED THIS…..
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Those who live there making parking even more scarce.
FakeGermaansk@FakeGermaanskOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Forcing density on whom?
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As I said, you can prove anything you want using statistics. If it is so safe now, why is there a push to lower the speed limit to 15 and 20 mph and the city keeps saying a dozen or more streets are the most dangerous in the city? Sometimes, you have to say enough is enough.
McRib Hard Seltzer@kleib323Oct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
With those higher speed limits we also had triple the number of annual traffic deaths
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Low density is relative. What we consider low density is medium density elsewhere. I never lived in Ohio.
Joe Rice 🏴‍☠️
@RiceIam22Oct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Go back to Ohio, I hear it's low density.
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15 mph limit is appropriate on a ver small number of streets, under 10%.
Freiheit2000@Freiheit20001Oct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Its Not about max Speed for Cars so some Car owners Feel 'good', its about moving people fast and efficient in cities. And 15 mph is good If Cars arent blocking or slowing down Traffic.
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Someone here is in favor of bulldozing Greenwich Village for high density because of the dense subway network there.
the war on cars, not drugs@BugsOct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
Nobody is proposing to ban low-density. Yet high-density IS banned in most places. They should be equally legal.
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Nothing is planned for the northern half. It’s the central portion that needs to be completed and it was scheduled to be done by the end of September. Hopefully it will be done before Thanksgiving.
Scruffyy90@scruffyy90Oct 12
Replying to @BrooklynBus
That HOV lane is only half way built though. The other phase of the van wyck is the northern half which the city will let drag on too
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