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They only run once an hour on average. They stop running after 6-7pm. They dont run on Sundays and Holidays.
And no metrocards. And that's what Nassau bus service is gonna look like in 2012 because the MTA is voting to dissolve LI Bus by Jan 1, 2012.
Suffolk Transit is useless, pretty much.
What they need to do is increase to 30 min headways on average, run till 11pm at night and ON SUNDAYS. Accepting metrocards would be nice too...
There are a couple of areas where the bus service is frequent enough that you can live without a car and depend on buses. The S1 and S92 run fairly frequently (though they don't have Sunday service), and a couple of the other routes run every 30 minutes.
You have to consider that NYC is one of the few transit-oriented cities in the USA. If you go out to an inner suburb in a city in Texas, you'll see that it is a lot like Long Island.
If you need a bus on Lon island you don't deserve to live here... Move to NYC
That's fine, I will be doing that eventually, and I can sit back and watch the disaster unfold from somewhere else. Your statement is the typical attitude on LI and I'm sick of it. How come many parts of NJ and Westchester are more open to buses? Somehow if it were up to most LI'ers there wouldn't be any buses allowed except for Hampton Jitney.
Just dont come crying when businesses start leaving, you have to mow your own lawn and it takes 20 minutes to go a mile..
There are a couple of areas where the bus service is frequent enough that you can live without a car and depend on buses. The S1 and S92 run fairly frequently (though they don't have Sunday service), and a couple of the other routes run every 30 minutes.
You have to consider that NYC is one of the few transit-oriented cities in the USA. If you go out to an inner suburb in a city in Texas, you'll see that it is a lot like Long Island.
The most peculiar thing to me about LI public transit is that for the most part the large concentrations of local employment and other destinations (large office complexes, government buildings, shopping, schools, etc.) are not located near train stations. If you live and work on Long Island, it is unlikely that you would be able to use LIRR to conveniently commute to virtually any of the large employment centers.
The most peculiar thing to me about LI public transit is that for the most part the large concentrations of local employment and other destinations (large office complexes, government buildings, shopping, schools, etc.) are not located near train stations. If you live and work on Long Island, it is unlikely that you would be able to use LIRR to conveniently commute to virtually any of the large employment centers.
did you read the map link in my first post??? dont the buses already go there directly???
Busses are a poor primary option for mass transit -- there is relatively little "mass" in that transit. Manhattan has lots of bus routes; I have never been on any one of them in the 25 years I have lived here. But, for example, if all of the major office complexes like CA, Symbol, EAB Plaza, etc. were located adjacent to train stations, there might be 25,000 people on trains, instead of 25,000 cars, usually single occupants, on the LIE.
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