by BandA
When late night service was added, how did it affect the hour or so before? Did riders shift to later trains, or were these new trips? Obviously not enough of them, but something should be learned from the data.
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bostontrainguy wrote:Sorry I misread your post.jamesinclair wrote:You are looking at the public schedule. As I said, the trains actually leave after 1:00 AM during the week. Late night service is only about one hour later. They could reschedule all last trains to leave Park at 2:00 AM and close everything down about 1 hour later than usual.bostontrainguy wrote:"Members of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Fiscal and Management Control Board on Wednesday seemed open to abandoning the weekend bus and subway service, which runs until 2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday mornings, to cut costs."Thats not true
Actually the last trains usually leave Park Street just after 1 AM anyway (i.e., 1:06 AM), so it's not even an hour extra service. They really don't need very frequent service, trains at 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, and 2:00 might be all that is necessary to serve the late night market. There are enough crossovers to bypass certain stretches of track or shuttles could be set up if extensive repairs have to be done somewhere.
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Last train leaves Park at 2:10 AM
Which in practice means 2:20
bostontrainguy wrote:It's over. Effective with the Spring schedule (end of March) the "Night Owl" is dead . . . again!I sense a strong correlation between adequately providing transportation services in urban areas and the party holding the governors office.
jamesinclair wrote:Actually, the bus service in "urban areas" is more generous than most. Check out the Route 28 schedule (right through the heart of Mattapan/Dudley/Ruggles) and you will see that it starts at 3:20 AM and runs until 1:40 AM. That's almost 24 hour service and more service than any other line I believe.bostontrainguy wrote:It's over. Effective with the Spring schedule (end of March) the "Night Owl" is dead . . . again!I sense a strong correlation between adequately providing transportation services in urban areas and the party holding the governors office.
Rockingham Racer wrote:As an outsider, I would also ask again: why are people putting up with shoddy service? There seems to be no cogent "voice of the riders", or if there is, that voice seems not to make much of a difference in the way things go in Beantown transit.Check out the local news sometime. People are pissed. The public meetings on fare increases and new schedules are well-attended, the local news has a piece trying to stir sentiment against the T practically every day, and arguably the most popular small talk subject behind the weather is how much everyone hates the T.
BandA wrote:The MBTA is insolvent. It has the highest costs of any transit agency in the country. Overtime is (was last year) out of control. GLX is out of control. They can't provide reliable service at rush hour. Nothing to do with the party in charge and everything to do with corruption & mismanagement. That's why we can't have good things around here.1.) No transit authority is "solvent," that's why it's a gov't agency and not a private venture.
bostontrainguy wrote:Seriously? Most of the ridership was affluent white college students out for a night of fun.And you have the detailed data that proves this on hand?
jamesinclair wrote:bostontrainguy wrote:Seriously? Most of the ridership was affluent white college students out for a night of fun.And you have the detailed data that proves this on hand?