Happy New Year 2013
I would like to take this time & wish all of my readers a Happy New Year! May 2013 be your best one yet.
I look forward to getting back to the roots of Transit Blogger while at the same time taking it to new places.
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Merry Christmas
I would like to take this time and wish all of my readers a Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!
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Service Diversions 12-24-12
I have just updated the Service Diversions by removing the work that wrapped up by 5AM this morning. The light diversion schedule for the last week of 2012 is front and center.
As always if I see anything interesting or noteworthy, I will tweet about it so follow @TransitBlogger which you can easily do by clicking the button in the sidebar.
Have a wonderful weekend!
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Service Diversions 12-21-12
With Christmas only 4 days away, people will be all over trying to get those last minute gifts. As is usually the case at this time of the year, the list of diversions is pretty small. So with that in mind, click here for the planned Service Diversions for the upcoming weekend & the last week of 2012 upcoming.
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MTA Adds Extra AM Q53 Buses
I spoke with an associate recently & they shared the frustration of some residents in the Rockaways due to the overcrowding occurring in the morning on the Q53. Riders were not the only one to notice as the MTA did as well.
Their solution is to add extra buses in the AM. Here is more via the press release they sent out:
Early morning Q53 trips (Rockaway Park – Woodside) leaving Rockaway Park northbound are starting up 30 minutes earlier, due to an observed crowding condition caused by the long-term outage of the Rockaway Line due to storm damage.
The first trip on the Q53 now begins at 4:30 am, instead of 5 am, with a second northbound trip at 4:45 am. These additional trips will help ease overcrowding on the Q53 trip at 5:00 am, incrementally enhancing Q53 service throughout the remainder of the weekday AM peak period. The MTA will add weekday early AM peak period service incrementally based on monitoring of customer loading.
The MTA continues to monitor the ridership on the various regular bus routes to/from the Rockaways with the continued outage of A train service and return of other infrastructure and associated travel activities. The MTA had previously added supplemental weekday service on the Q22 segment between Far Rockaway-Mott Av and Rockaway Park-Beach 116th St, and supplemental weekday peak period service on the Q52 segment between Arverne (Beach 69th Street) and Ozone Park (Liberty Av).
It is good to see the agency quickly adjust service to match the current demand. This has not always been their strong point. However kudos are definitely due here & hopefully it helps starve off the crowding issues. I’ll ask around in the coming weeks to see if that is the case.
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