From: stephen@sprunk.org   
      
   On 22-Apr-14 08:58, conklin wrote:   
   > "John Levine"  wrote in message   
   > news:lj47qj$top$1@miucha.iecc.com...   
   >>   
   >>> What about telling the truth for a change?  City buses stop all   
   >>> over the place and having ridden them many years, I never saw   
   >>> even a shelter in NYC.   
   >>   
   >> You must not have been looking very hard.  There are subway   
   >> stations with attached bus stations, like this one:   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Avenue_/_74th_Street_   
   New_York_City_Subway)#Victor_A._Moore_Bus_Terminal   
   >>   
   >> It really exists.  I've used it on the way to and from LGA.   
   >>   
   >> Or here's a bus shelter in the Bronx, with ticket machines:   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Select_Bus_Service_bus_shelter.jpg   
   >>   
   >> Here's one in midtown:   
   >> http://publictransport.about.com/od/Pictures_Of_Transit/ig/Tr   
   nsit-Pictures-From-New-York/New-York-Bus-Shelter.htm   
   >>   
   >> And here's one in Brooklyn:   
   >> http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/09/blog-tells-the-t   
   le-of-a-bus-shelter-destroyed/   
   >   
   > How nice 2% of stops might have something near them.  Now they need,   
   > like the RRs, a $60 million station like Raleigh is planning at   
   > public expense for a couple hundred passengers a day.   
      
   A rail stop doesn't need anything more than a platform, which is all   
   that Amtrak provides in most places; that is cheap.  A bus shelter and   
   TVM are customer-friendly, cost-effective additions but hardly universal.   
      
   If the local taxpayers want to build some extravagant monument to   
   wasteful spending, as in Raleigh, that is their choice, but it's not   
   _necessary_, nor should Amtrak be saddled with the cost of such   
   wastefulness.   
      
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