Equipment Order in the works this year (2018)?

[MikefromCrete]

Any time a passenger has to transfer between trains, or between buses and trains, it discourages ridership. Transit riders love one seat service.

 

[railiner]

Any time a passenger has to transfer between trains, or between buses and trains, it discourages ridership. Transit riders love one seat service.

Strongly agree with this...

I live in what was known as a "two-fare" zone in a NYC "outer borough". To get into Manhattan, I have to take a local bus to reach the subway line. Sometime in the sixties, they introduced "express bus routes", which for a premium, even higher than the double local fare, gave people a comfortable one seat ride. These proved wildly popular with commuter's and shopper's...even for weekend trips for entertainment. A whole new network of these sprang up all over the city.

When the Metrocard came out, it eliminated the two fare zone, by giving one free bus to subway or vice versa, transfer. It mostly was successful for eliminating illegal "dollar cabs" taking people from bus stops to and from the subway, but had little impact on the express buses, which its partisans still preferred, for the comfortable one seat ride, even when seriously delayed by traffic.

 

[PVD]

Some of of is aversion to the subways, we are on the same bus route, and quite a few people get on the QM4 the last 2 stops before Qns Blvd, and they are a short walk to the subway.