On 10 Apr 2007 at 16:53, Darcy James Argue wrote: > But, of course, if you stop for 15 minutes to listen to a busker at > the beginning or in the middle of your trip, you've eaten away your > cushion, and if you subsequently encounter a delay, you will be late.
Well, I was mapping my own situation onto this. There's never anyone playing in the 46th Street GRV station, and for many of my trips I don't have to transfer. One of my most common trips is to West 4th, which is the most common place I encounter musicians. One of my other common ones is to 78th and Riverside, with a transfer at Times Square, where I often encounter music. You're right that there I'm in transit from the R line to the 1, so I haven't the time to stop and listen. But surely some significant portion of the 1,097 people who went past Bell were at or near the end of their trip. Even if 50% of them were exiting the Metro, surely some portion of those were at least a little bit early? And I can't help but think that the numbers for those people ought to be significant enough that a few hundred were actually not under enough time pressure that they couldn't spare 5 minutes. But you're right -- my observation applies only to the terminus of a trip, and one which one takes regularly enough to know the timing for the remainder of one's trip after leaving the subway. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
