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.
This is the third in a three-part series by Allan Rosen, examining why cuts are bad [/mta-no-more-cuts-please/], how ineffective planning hurts the system [/why-mta%e2%80%99s-operations-planning-is-all-screwed-up/], and how the MTA can deliver better results. THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Today, in the final segment of this series, I give a
This is the second in a three-part series by Allan Rosen, examining why service cuts are bad, how ineffective planning hurts the system, and how the MTA can deliver better results. THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Yesterday, I mentioned that the MTA is proposing cuts to Manhattan’s bus service [/mta-no-more-cuts-please/
This is the first in a three-part series by Allan Rosen, examining why cuts are bad, how ineffective planning hurts the system, and how the MTA can deliver better results. THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Today is June 27, which marks exactly one year since the MTA implemented the most devastating
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It’s not fair to city workers that we report only when they don’t do their jobs. So here’s a little report from Allan Rosen about the Parks Department responding to his concerns. This tree limb fell at 10 a.m. on May 31, as I stood across
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Source: Arrts-Arrchives.com THE COMMUTE [../tag/the-commute/]: The MTA does a decent job when it comes to finding and returning lost property to its rightful owners, except when it comes to finding its own property. The New York Times reported on Saturday [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/18/nyregion/
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: This week’s Commute is for those of you who walk or run on the Riegelmann Boardwalk, which is in danger of extinction as we know it. The latest proposal calls for a 12-foot wide concrete strip for motorized vehicles, yielding to opposition from those who
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: According to the Manhattan Beach Community Group [http://www.manhattanbeachbrooklyn.org/?p=949], the MTA has agreed to station a dispatcher at the bus terminal in Manhattan Beach on summer weekends that will have the ability to summon extra drivers from the depot in case of
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THE COMMUTE: Transit ridership reached an all time high shortly after World War II. It has been declining since then, especially after fare increases and during downturns in the economy with a few exceptions. The reasons are many, most importantly the rise in use of the automobile and the building
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: I have better things to do on Memorial Day than watching buses. But after last year’s mayhem [/mta-memorial-day-mayhem-in-manhattan-beach/], I thought it was my duty to at least check out the crowding this Memorial Day, especially after the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association’s (MBNA) request for
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Have you seen or ridden on this bus yet? It’s a new Nova bus made in upstate New York recently making it’s debut at Ulmer Park Depot. That’s the home of routes such as the B1, B3, B6, and B36. Luckily, only 90 have been ordered, at
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Photo by LostInServiceTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: In recent years Albany has been stealing increasing amounts of dedicated transit funding to help balance its ever-increasing budget deficit. In 2010, Albany redirected $143 million [http://secondavenuesagas.com/2010/11/23/a-solution-to-new-yorks-transit-robbing-ways/] in MTA money to the general fund. This reduction in transit
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Photo by Allan RosenLast month, I discussed several bus routes that were either restored or modified after last year’s service cuts as a result of community pressure. I also asked the question, where is the pressure to restore the B4 [/sheepshead-bay-residents-need-to-fight-b4-cuts/], which now only serves Sheepshead Bay part-time? At