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Re: Q22 & Q35 bus routes redesign, coming soon? |
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Posted by BusMgr on Wed May 16 15:55:58 2018, in response to Re: Q22 & Q35 bus routes redesign, coming soon?, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed May 16 10:43:48 2018. Time savings from eliminating bus stops accrue because of having fewer instances of deceleration into, and acceleration from, bus stops, and the time required for opening and closing the bus door. (The dwell time spent for the actual boarding and alighting of passengers remains the same, regardless if it is done with many people at a single bus stop, or distributed among several bus stops.) Thus, there can be time savings if the total number of times that the bus stops is reduced. But the number of times that a bus stops is different than the number of bus stops along a bus route. If a bus route has many bus stops, but only stops at a few of them, eliminating bus stops does nothing to improve average bus speed, since the actual number of times that the bus stops is unchanged. In other words, eliminating lightly-used bus stops has little, if any, effect on bus speeds. Given that many of the bus stops on route Q22 at issue here are lightly-used, there is little benefit to their elimination. Yet, by eliminating bus stops, accessibility to the transit system is reduced. That is, potential passengers must walk further, on average, to reach a bus stop, thereby lengthening the overall journey time for the passenger. This appears to be mindless implementation of a standard practice (i.e., bus stop spacing) by MTABC planners, without consideration of the actual effects of their action. BrooklynBus is correct in his assertion here. |
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