RIRA President On Agreeing With RIOC On Red Bus Route Ideas, Roosevelt Island Blood Driver & Common Meeting Calendar For Organizations
Roosevelt Island Red Bus At Riverwalk StopRoosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) President Frank Farance sends the following report to Roosevelt Island residents.
1. Convening a scheduling meeting for the Island's organizations. Many of you participate in more than one of the Island's organizations and have had the occasional frustration: Why did organizations X and Y plan the two interesting events at the same time? My hope is that we can meet this September and try to mark up a common calendar from September 2010 to June 2011 that avoids scheduling conflicts as much as practicable.The RIRA President's message is also published as the RIRA column in the 5/8/10 Main Street WIRE.
2. Red Bus ideas. I spoke with Mr. Martinez (RIOC VP of Operations) and he believes the continuous flow of buses (1) does not produce the best service, and (2) doesn't make the best use of the resources (buses and drivers). He said that we need to have a fixed schedule and he will be gathering data soon to best understand bus ridership and traffic flows. Mr. Martinez points out that the new schedule and routing of the Q102 might help with the morning rush hour, especially for Octagon residents. I agree with Mr. Martinez and we will be working together on the planning and data collection.
3. RIRA Blood Drive on June 19, Roosevelt Island Day. Don't forget to donate blood. Thanks to Matt Katz for organizing this.
4. Upcoming RIRA meetings. The next Common Council meeting is June 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the Good Shepherd Community Center; future meetings are on September 15 (no planned meetings over the summer) and October 6. Upcoming RIRA Town Hall meeting (in preparation for RIOC Board meetings) is on June 16.
5 comments :
With the revised Q102 Island runs
I believe Mr Martinez will find it sensible to do away with the Octagon Express during morning rush hours.If all buses were to make the same stops, it would result in less bunching than at present; and improve service to Manhattan Park and Main Street.
Anonymous and all others should know that the Octagon Express is separately contracted and paid for by the Octagon building owner.
Steve Shane
Mr Shane is not addressing the subject, which is efficiency
and not cost.Octagon resident pay separately for the Octagon Express,
but they pay the same as the WIRE and Manhattan Park residents for much longer and therefore costlier rides on the regular Red Buses.
Mr. Martinez just got the right idea.I agree with him too.Compliments from Pay Per Click Services
I am having a hard time to understand what anonymous from above is trying to say. Is he/she trying to say that a bus that runs without stop from the Octagon to the subway station is contributing to bus bunching? I'd like to know what logic is behind that thinking.
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