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Re: Q48 Re: Q48 Guide-a-Ride question |
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Posted by BusMgr on Tue Feb 24 23:23:30 2015, in response to Re: Q48 Re: Q48 Guide-a-Ride question, posted by New Flyer #857 on Tue Feb 24 15:42:55 2015. My guiding principle on this issue is that bus routes should be as long as they ought to be, and no longer.That is, so long as there is enough through passenger traffic, a bus route should cover the full length of the journeys of those passengers (or at least a significant proportion of those passengers), and not compel a transfer. And if there are two routes for which there is substantial transfer activity, then merging those two routes ought to be considered. But if nearly everyone gets off a bus route at some mid-route point, and a whole new crowd boards, then consideration ought to be given to breaking the route at that point, and allow each of the two new routes to benefit from better on-time performance (given that each route will now have some recovery time before departing from that new terminal point), greater regularity from isolating delays in one route, and more flexibility in scheduling headways for each of the two new routes. |
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