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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
I think he's asking though why couldn't someone in Manhattan just take the subway instead of the bus. I'd say they would take the bus for why most people would, that the entry/exit point is closer than the subway station would be, no?
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Well, yeah... but again, consider the contrapositive of my initial question. If the city is gonna do this on 125th St next, then why extend the 2nd Ave Subway along the same corridor? Why couldn't you do a full busway on Nostrand and Utica in Brooklyn instead of subway extensions?
New York suffers from a huge construction cost problem that is unrivaled in the world. The city literally can't afford to build the subways it needs... but they just proved they can create more transit capacity
overnight for tiny sums of money. So why not do that more, in outer-borough or far uptown locations? The existing SBS is only a half-measure.