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Originally Posted by OyCrumbler
No, they don't especially as NYC is no longer a three-shift manufacturing powerhouse that it was. Night bus service with decent shelters, frequency, and signal priority would accomplish about the same or better for the Sunday-Thursday wee hours and would yield better planned maintenance and cleaning schedules for the subway.
However, ReThinkNYC isn't really about planning over subways so much as improving and making better, more pleasant and more efficient use of the commuter rail networks. The current way it's operated is pretty inefficient.
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The people who work evenings that get out of work between midnight and 4:00 AM that live in a borough other than where they work would like to have a word with you. The last thing that someone who works in Brooklyn that lives in The Bronx needs is an even more pricey, fragmented, and inconvenient trip home. The Metro North Railroad serves very little of The Bronx, with most stations being far from connecting bus routes and subway lines. The cost just isn’t worth it knowing you’ll have to take a bus afterwards anyway just to get home. Overnight subway service is not only necessary, but vital in New York City, and once they resume 24/7 service, commutes for a lot of people will improve, because the current 20-hour operation span due to mandatory overnight equipment sterilization just doesn’t cut it. Furthermore, improving MNRR and LIRR operations won’t affect New York City transit ridership all that much, as patrons utilizing those services typically do not live in neighborhoods where the subway system exists and is the only option for the majority of residents living there.
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