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The radius of the circle the author used, 500m, is a bit under twice the length of a Manhattan block. I can guarantee you that your typical regular transit user is capable of walking a couple blocks without having to stop for a Gatorade.
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It's worth bearing in mind that in areas of NYC where the bus is the only option, a bus commute is often much much longer than a subway commute. I had the displeasure of attempting a few bus commutes into Manhattan from my old neighborhood in Bed-Stuy, and I would not be eager to do it again. So, while I agree that one shouldn't completely ignore the buses, I think it is also misleading to treat them as equivalent to…
From where I live in Brooklyn, if I want to get to downtown Brooklyn, I can take a bus that goes straight down the relevant avenue to get there, _or_ I can take the train into Manhattan and then down. The train is five minutes faster.
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In Montreal, I can count on the sidewalks being cleared well enough within 48 hours of a big storm and sort of cleared within 8h (< 2" snow, at least 16-20" wide path, basically one pass of the sidewalk plows.)
As I mentioned above, that's definitely not the case in the outer boroughs of New York (Manhattan in some cases too, depending on where you are, though I don't know that for certain). There have been weeks at a time where I've had to walk in the street because the sidewalks were just inaccessible or sheets of ice, which makes proximity to the train station all the more important.
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From where I live in Brooklyn, if I want to get to downtown Brooklyn, I can take a bus that goes straight down the relevant avenue to get there, _or_ I can take the train into Manhattan and then down. The train is five minutes faster.
That's not such a bad deal considering you get a free bus transfer back home for quick trips.
That's because its way to easy to fiddle with bus routes, and so I can't count on a bus that works for me now to still work for me next year.
I'd expect that with a subway, where moving a route over a few blocks is considerably more involved and more costly than changing some signs and putting out new schedules, there would be more long term stability.
Is this the case in reality? How often do they shut down a route in the NY subway system? How often do they keep an underperforming route but cut the frequency of trains? Is there some lower limit for train frequency below which they will not go for a route that is not being outright cancelled?