Comments on: Streetfilms Illustrates the Need for More Bus-Only Lanes http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/01/streetfilms-illustrates-the-need-for-more-bus-only-lanes/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:23:58 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Sunspot http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/01/streetfilms-illustrates-the-need-for-more-bus-only-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-13261 Sunspot Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:03:06 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2931#comment-13261 Great Job on the video. Very simple cute animation and displays all the benefits in a digestible manner. I'll be forwarding it out to many folks I know--it's a great education tool on transit. Thank you. Great Job on the video. Very simple cute animation and displays all the benefits in a digestible manner. I'll be forwarding it out to many folks I know--it's a great education tool on transit. Thank you.

]]> By: Erik G. http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/07/01/streetfilms-illustrates-the-need-for-more-bus-only-lanes/comment-page-1/#comment-9151 Erik G. Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:58:48 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2931#comment-9151 It has always stunned me how much of a barrier the Hudson River is to commuters, not just as a river but as a bureaucratic boundary that seemingly only the PANYNJ can cross. I notice many projects that should offer better connections between New Jersey and New York City: Hudson Bergen Light Rail which has no bus connection to Staten Island. NYCMTA 7 train which is being extended west to Javitz Center with no thought to extending on to New Jersey. If you've got the tunneling equipment in the hole, why not push on under the Hudson? Why can't NJTransit trains continue out through to the LIRR lines? (And vice-versa) Why isn't the PATH line to World Trade Center being hooked up to some NYC Subway line so that throught trains could operate? New York/New Jersey have a lot of work to do on its apparent inability to work together as does NYC Transit on being able to make the last mile to connect, even if it means leaving the city limits. It has always stunned me how much of a barrier the Hudson River is to commuters, not just as a river but as a bureaucratic boundary that seemingly only the PANYNJ can cross.

I notice many projects that should offer better connections between New Jersey and New York City:

Hudson Bergen Light Rail which has no bus connection to Staten Island.

NYCMTA 7 train which is being extended west to Javitz Center with no thought to extending on to New Jersey. If you've got the tunneling equipment in the hole, why not push on under the Hudson?

Why can't NJTransit trains continue out through to the LIRR lines? (And vice-versa)

Why isn't the PATH line to World Trade Center being hooked up to some NYC Subway line so that throught trains could operate?

New York/New Jersey have a lot of work to do on its apparent inability to work together as does NYC Transit on being able to make the last mile to connect, even if it means leaving the city limits.

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