Comments on: Wanted: Your Photos of Crummy Transit Conditions http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/wanted-your-photos-of-crummy-transit-conditions/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jym http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/wanted-your-photos-of-crummy-transit-conditions/comment-page-1/#comment-150851 Jym Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:26:21 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=85851#comment-150851 =v= Contact Muni. Maybe they have photos or even footage of the grand opening of their Embarcadero Muni Metro service, where an SUV-driver figured the spankin' new streetcar tracks was actually a spankin' new parking spot. (Of course, he didn't receive a ticket. Why should those tracks be like any other tracks in the city?) =v= Contact Muni. Maybe they have photos or even footage of the grand opening of their Embarcadero Muni Metro service, where an SUV-driver figured the spankin’ new streetcar tracks was actually a spankin’ new parking spot.

(Of course, he didn’t receive a ticket. Why should those tracks be like any other tracks in the city?)

]]> By: Ian Turner http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/wanted-your-photos-of-crummy-transit-conditions/comment-page-1/#comment-149561 Ian Turner Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:22:10 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=85851#comment-149561 Emily, AFAIK the MTA already collects their own timeliness statistics, which are available on a detailed per-route basis. Cheers, --Ian Emily, AFAIK the MTA already collects their own timeliness statistics, which are available on a detailed per-route basis.

Cheers,

–Ian

]]> By: Glenn http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/wanted-your-photos-of-crummy-transit-conditions/comment-page-1/#comment-149341 Glenn Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:21 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=85851#comment-149341 OMG about halfway through BO's video, I wanted to just break through the door and start walking... OMG about halfway through BO’s video, I wanted to just break through the door and start walking…

]]> By: BicyclesOnly http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/wanted-your-photos-of-crummy-transit-conditions/comment-page-1/#comment-149291 BicyclesOnly Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:47:33 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=85851#comment-149291 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkFiIRoScY" rel="nofollow">This video</a> shows the causes and effects of illegal placard parking and bunching on the M96 route. This video
shows the causes and effects of illegal placard parking and bunching on the M96 route.

]]> By: Emily Litella http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/11/05/wanted-your-photos-of-crummy-transit-conditions/comment-page-1/#comment-149261 Emily Litella Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:16:19 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=85851#comment-149261 Great idea to photo document transit fould ups. Here's a challenge for the more tech savy among us. We need to shine a light on a chronically troubled area of transit operations, schedule adherence. Many of us have digital cameras that record time-lapse motion pictures. If your window faces a transit stop or route, why not record an entire day or week's worth of bus movements on your street. Set your your camera to record frequently enough to not miss a vehicle passing through your observation point without stopping, yet slow enough that review of the recording can be done in a few minutes. This gets interesting at places where traffic on an entire route is light, where there are few external reasons for the bus to be more than a couple of minutes late. We need to document occurences of bunching on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights for example. We can challenge transit operator on-time performance statistics, not to be a pain in the neck but to build a case for more secure funding sources, and more transit friendly street management policies. And maybe your time lapse movies can help the MTA in supervising schedule adherence in far flung segments during the off-peak. There's usually a reason you waited 30 minutes for a bus on a 10 minute scheduled headway (most off-peak schedules are clearly posted at MTA.INFO. Reliable bus service, however infrequent, is the best defense against households deciding to purchase that second automobile. Great idea to photo document transit fould ups. Here’s a challenge for the more tech savy among us. We need to shine a light on a chronically troubled area of transit operations, schedule adherence. Many of us have digital cameras that record time-lapse motion pictures. If your window faces a transit stop or route, why not record an entire day or week’s worth of bus movements on your street. Set your your camera to record frequently enough to not miss a vehicle passing through your observation point without stopping, yet slow enough that review of the recording can be done in a few minutes. This gets interesting at places where traffic on an entire route is light, where there are few external reasons for the bus to be more than a couple of minutes late. We need to document occurences of bunching on Sunday mornings and Tuesday nights for example. We can challenge transit operator on-time performance statistics, not to be a pain in the neck but to build a case for more secure funding sources, and more transit friendly street management policies.

And maybe your time lapse movies can help the MTA in supervising schedule adherence in far flung segments during the off-peak. There’s usually a reason you waited 30 minutes for a bus on a 10 minute scheduled headway (most off-peak schedules are clearly posted at MTA.INFO. Reliable bus service, however infrequent, is the best defense against households deciding to purchase that second automobile.

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