Allan Rosen is a former director of MTA NYCT Bus Planning with three decades of experience in transportation and a Master's Degree in Urban Planning.
Map distributed on the reverse side of the flyer announcing changes in 1978 to the Southwest Brooklyn bus routes. Courtesy of Allan Rosen. Click to enlargeTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: In this three-part series, Allan Rosen discusses, in Part 1, the back-story and success of the 1978 Southwest Brooklyn bus route
Click to enlargeTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: In this three-part series, Allan Rosen discusses, in Part 1, the back-story and success of the 1978 Southwest Brooklyn bus route changes, and why this is how the MTA should do its bus route planning. Last June, Allan explained [/why-mta%E2%80%99s-operations-planning-is-all-screwed-up/] what
The B1 bus, en route to Kingsborough Community CollegeTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: It’s been a while since I reported on the B1 bus. Last year I asked [/is-the-mta-a-private-bus-service-for-kcc-students/] if the MTA was providing a private bus service for Kingsborough Community College. (Those problems still exist.) I made recommendations [/how-kcc-can-improve-bus-service-for-all/
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Yesterday, I discussed at length the faulty methodology used by the MTA in its Customer Service Bus Satisfaction Survey [/mta-does-another-customer-service-satisfaction-survey/]. Today, I will interpret what the results are really saying. The Service Results(Comments in Italics) * Overall Local Service – 70 percent satisfied. Limited and Select Bus
A screenshot from the MTA's 2011 bus satisfaction surveyTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: The MTA just released the results of another Customer Satisfaction Survey approximately one year after its 2010 survey I reported on [/questions-about-the-mta’s-satisfaction-survey/]. According to the survey, the vast majority of customers are satisfied with the
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Source: Roosevelt IslanderTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: If you do not have an unlimited pass and there are insufficient funds on your MetroCard, do not attempt to pay your bus fare by combining two cards. The MTA will deduct the remaining amount from the first card and a full fare from
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: When the MTA severely cut bus service in June 2010, they did so to help close a budget gap. Their official line was that they were cutting service to improve efficiency and to inconvenience as few customers as possible. Based on a methodology that was never
Today’s special edition of The Commute is a follow-up on yesterday’s column on suggestions and critiques of the planned Select Bus Service (SBS) route on Nostrand Avenue [/sbs-nostrand-ave-service-speak-up-now-or-forever-hold-your-peace/], which will replace the B44 Limited. THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week I made a slight error by stating that
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: No one is getting married, but if you want the MTA to make any changes to the proposed Select Bus Service (SBS) route on Nostrand Avenue and Rogers Avenue planned for early 2013, now is the time to let them know and they will listen to
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Tomorrow night, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Brooklyn College Student Center (Campus Road and East 27th Street, second floor) may be your last opportunity to provide input to the MTA’s and DOT’s plan to convert the B44 Nostrand Avenue
Source: Edge of the CityTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: I’m not talking about congestion pricing for the Manhattan Central Business District, but rather methods such as improved signage, better traffic light synchronization, reducing the number of bottlenecks, additional dual left turn lanes, more two-way streets, additional traffic enforcement agents placed
Source: neal..patel/FlickrTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: My sister passed away this week. What does this have to do with The Commute you ask? For one thing, I told Ned there wouldn’t be any this week and he was fine with that. Then I got to thinking. I received