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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

BeyondGeography

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1. Our busses are comically slow

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 06:35 AM

May 2015

My favorite maneuver is when the driver slows down at an intersection so he can catch a red light and stick to the schedule. Then sometimes they change drivers in the middle of the route. This also happens in super slo mo.

You do need to take them crosstown. See Hendrix, Jimi, on how that goes.

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NY: MTA Bus Ridership Plummeting, Statistics Show [View all] marmar May 2015 OP

Our busses are comically slow BeyondGeography May 2015 #1

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