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 B1 bus, en route to Kingsborough Community CollegeTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: More about the anniversary tomorrow, but first an update regarding B1 bus service. Last Monday, I noticed a steady stream of college students, about 30 of them, walking a mile and a half from the Brighton Beach train
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A Capital District Transportation Authority Gillig Low Floor BRT hybrid bus. Source: WikipediaTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: I thank Dr. John Rozankowski for filling in for me last week [/service-diversification-on-the-brighton-line/] as I enjoyed a week away from New York City and the internet in the Adirondacks. I was limited to the
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: The MTA has always denied that bus bunching is a major problem. The party line has been that it is caused by traffic, is unavoidable, and little can be done to prevent it. The truth is that bus bunching occurs even on routes with light traffic
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The wheels on the bus go ’round and ’round… Source: Lempkin / FlickrTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week, we discussed [/mta-offers-few-solutionsa-to-fix-problems-affecting-local-bus-routes-part-1-of-2/] the MTA’s recent attempts to fix problems with the local bus system such as newly-designed routes that suffer from the same problems plaguing the rest of the system. An
Source: bebo2good1 / YouTubeTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last August, I critiqued [/mta-long-range-planning-part-2-of-2/] the 23-page MTA planning outline, entitled “Looking Ahead [http://www.mta.info/mta/news/books/docs/TYN_Vision_7-22-13.pdf].” Last week, the MTA released the full report — a 142-page “MTA Twenty-Year Capital Needs Assessment [http://www.mta.info/
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THE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Every time we look around, a new street is co-named. Often, we have no idea who the individual was. Okay, if it is for Police Officer X, or Firefighter Y, we can conclude they died in the line of duty. How about the others? Their names
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All photos by Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: In this column, we’ve discussed many different forms of commuting: subway, bus, car, taxi, ferries, biking, and even commercial airline travel. But one we have never mentioned is the private airplane. In rural parts of the country especially in Alaska, that’
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Photo by Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week, in Part 1 [/why-we-need-a-transit-center-near-the-brooklyn-army-terminal-part-1-of-2/], we started to discuss the Brooklyn Army Terminal as a major transportation hub and I got sidetracked into a discussion about involving the private sector, through the use of vans, to providing legal transit services between major
The Eltingville Transit Center in Staten Island. Photo by Allan RosenTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week [/an-alternative-to-the-montague-street-tunnel-closure-you-may-not-know-about/], we discussed the Rockaway Ferry to lower Manhattan, which now also stops at the Brooklyn Army Terminal due to the closure of the Montague Street Tunnel. This week, we discuss the possibility of
Photo by Erica ShermanTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: If you ride the subways daily to lower Manhattan, you already know about the closure of the Montague Street tunnel, since the beginning of August. You also likely know that it will remain closed until October 2014 when repairs as a result of
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Source: Metro Transportation Library and Archive/FlickrTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Last week in Part 1 [/mta-long-range-planning-part-1-of-2/] , I briefly summarized the MTA’s “Looking Ahead: [http://www.mta.info/mta/news/books/docs/TYN_Vision_7-22-13.pdf] A Context for the Next Twenty Year Needs Assessment” and stated that the MTA’
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No long range planning going on here. Move along, nothing to see here. Source: Museum of FlightTHE COMMUTE [/tag/the-commute/]: Most of what the MTA does such as day-to-day operations does not make the news. Keeping the system running each day, as imperfect as it is, is a monumental task