An alternative is to have #44 go on I-95 after New Rochelle and run up the Platinum Mile with #62, since some #62 buses can have standees (at least in the afternoon)

The #22 can turn on Gun Hill to get to Jerome if needed, so the #20, #21, and #22 would stop at the same stop at Woodlawn. This is a test to see how Bainbridge service would work vs Jerome, since many people could take the (4) to Woodlawn, the #22 would be any extra future service increases the #20 would get, except would be more reliable (N/B) due to not being on Jerome for so long.

#44 could still work making only transfer stops (3 stops) along #45 route after New Rochelle, which would cut down on the travel times.

#44 stops
All stops from Pelham Bay to New Rochelle Transit Center

EXPRESS (skips Iona College)
5th Avenue #45, #45Q, #61 (get off here for Iona College and walk or transfer to the #45Q)
Quaker Ridge Road #45, #45Q
White Plains Road #40, #41
Post Road #40, #41 (White Plains Hospital)

All stops to White Plains TransCenter (or non stop to TransCenter depends upon ridership patterns)

It depends upon how many people currently transfer between 40/41 and 45 during the rush hour...

Oh MTA36 i can tell you that.

The BXM4d i believe was a rush hour 'extra service' of the current BXM4c that ran to Tarrytown and the Westchester Medical Center. I assume it was cancelled due to low ridership.

damn...

I mean, I don't know...

are you saying that old BxM4d went to the medical center... tarrytown, en route to where the (current) BxM4c ends @ (around 23rd st/5th av)...

or did it terminate elsewhere in manhattan?

regardless, I can see why such a route would be discontinued.....

a FULL length fordham route that connects via fordham to every train route and run up pelhma bay to pelhamdale road, up wolf or 5th (pelhma RR station) then follow the 7 route to new rochelle with a PT express to WP?

the issue with the 45 is that riders feel the route and the schedule is useless to them basically saying if you miss the 45 your stranded due to the fact that on the 6 train there is only ONE BUS and that is the 45.

instead of PBP?

that's actually worse than what it currently does...



.....unless you're saying, have it serve PBP, then afterwards on up to Bay Plaza....

Problem w/ that is, not too many riders from co-op use the route to begin with... a westbound extension (even on over to Pelham Pkwy on the '2') would do the route some good....

My proposal for improving Westchester service would be to introduce a new Westchester route that would serve as an alternative to the Metro-North New Haven Line from the Bronx to New Rochelle. With Metro-North service as inadequate as it is, especially outbound on the New Haven line, the following route would be introduced, originating at Fordham Road:

- East Fordham, Pelham Pkwy, White Plains, West 1st, (stop at Mount Vernon East MNR), East Prospect, South Columbus, East Sandford (accessing the shopping center), Wolfs, 5th, (accessing Pelham MNR), Lincoln, North (ending at New Rochelle MNR).