Well I stayed in the city last night and took the express bus home this morning. To my surprise there was an employee handing out surveys. I found the questions to be odd. It asked questions such as the following:
-How many one-way trips did you take in the past 7 days?
-If you transferred to the express bus using another mode?
-If you transferred to another mode once you deboarded the express bus?
-If this bus wasn't available, what means would you use to complete your trip? Express bus, local bus, car, MNRR, etc.
-Zip code?
-What stop you were getting off?
-The closest stop to your final destination?
-Age range?
-Sex?
-Ethnicity?
-Race?
-If you were born in the US?
-Household Income?
-Primary language?
-How proficient you were in the main language you used?
-What language you preferred to receive future communications?
It had to be the most bizarre express bus survey I've ever received. The last one I filled out was on Staten Island and it wasn't anything close to this one.
I thought it would ask about on-time performance and things of that nature. It was fitting that my bus was almost 20 minutes late and we arrived almost 30 minutes behind schedule.
When I took the express bus back to the city later, there was no personnel handing out surveys.