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.
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last month, I wrote [/the-perfect-storm-for-bungled-mta-beach-service/]that some neighborhood residents want assurances from the MTA that this Memorial Day will not be a repeat of last year’s holiday, when thousands attempted to leave the beach at the same time [/mta-memorial-day-mayhem-in-manhattan-beach/], severely overloading the bus system. This
370 Jay Street, taken in 2006 before the scaffolding was erected.THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: The MTA is short of cash. That is no secret. Albany is partially to blame for that, as Ben Kabak has written about endlessly in SecondAvenueSagas.com [http://www.SecondAvenueSagas.com]. But have the MTA’
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: “Making Every Dollar Count” has been Jay Walder’s slogan since taking over as Chairman of the MTA, but is he really doing that? Last week’s article focused on restoring the B4. I suggested that a service restoration resulting from last June’s service cutbacks
Photo by Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: The bus service cuts last June [/b4s-sheepshead-route-whithers-this-weekend/] were devastating. No neighborhood was spared. In Sheepshead Bay, the worst change was the elimination of the eastern portion of the B4 during middays and on weekends. Privately, several people have complained to me how much
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Source: NYDailyNews.comTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: The nice clean train you are riding on today could have been hauling garbage last night. That’s what straphangers recently learned [http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/04/13/2011-04-13_late_at_night_mta_hauling_reeking_ratfilled_garbage_on_passenger_subway_cars_
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Sheepshead Bites reported on overflowing crowds at Manhattan Beach bus stops last Memorial Day [/mta-memorial-day-mayhem-in-manhattan-beach/], with inadequate bus service to handle these crowds leaving the beach. Now some neighborhood residents want assurances from the MTA that this will never happen again. What happened last year could
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: New beachgoers getting off the bus at Manhattan Beach have been lugging their beach gear down the 600-foot ocean block of Ocean Avenue for 50 years only to discover when they get to the end of the block, both entrances are permanently closed and they then
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: The hipsters are at it again. Ben Kabak of Second Avenue Sagas wonders publicly [http://secondavenuesagas.com/2011/03/24/a-parking-debate-giving-away-space-for-free/] if everyone in the city should always have to pay for on-street parking. New York City now views free parking as a problem and is
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Often we forget that we have one of the most extensive and best transit systems in the world. There are not too many other places where you can take a train 24 hours a day without having to rely on a schedule. Of course. the system
THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Bus service is the MTA’s job, but Kingsborough can assist the MTA in improving bus service by taking the following measures. 1. Provide security officers to assist MTA dispatchers and bus drivers 2. Inform the MTA every time there is a deviation in the school
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Select Bus Service (SBS) along the B44 is coming to Sheepshead Bay. When it will arrive is still a mystery depending on which MTA page you access. It is scheduled either for later this year [http://mta.info/mta/planning/sbs/routes.html] or mid-2012 [http:
Proof of a lie. Photo by Allan Rosen.THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: I guess the two things that bother me most are stupidity and liars. An example of stupidity is proposing a cure worse than the disease. Liars are even more infuriating. They will take a position, deny having taken