Originally Posted by
markraby
I don't understand why transfers wouldn't work as normal between the SBS and the local. I took the M15 SBS this morning from 79th Street to 34th Street and transferred to the M34 with my Metrocard. It worked fine. Were riders able to transfer between M15 Limited and M15 Local before SBS? I never tried that.
As a side note, the SBS was sitting there right at the stop when I arrived and I had to fight the urge to just jump on. Instead, I had to go to the machine and get my receipt, which caused me to miss that bus. Two local buses passed before the next SBS. Am I the only one noticing that there seems to be more local buses since the introduction of SBS?
As another side note, when I got to 34th Street I was able to try out the MTA's new bus info texting service. I texted a special "bus stop code" to 41411 and saw that the next M34 was arriving in 5 minutes. It was perfectly accurate.
I have not read the specific literature as I believe that it is only in the pamphlets and not on the web pages.
Before you could not seamlessly transfer as it really did not count as a transfer similar to if you caught the subway got outside and realised you wanted to transfer you get charged.
The seamless transfer between the SBS and the local is an advertised benefited which is what has got people riled. Also you can't really do the transfer because I believe there is a time stamp when you swipe the card for a receipt and you can't use the metrocard again until the 12/18 minutes after.