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Re: Q22 & Q35 bus routes redesign, coming soon? |
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Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu May 17 17:07:10 2018, in response to Re: Q22 & Q35 bus routes redesign, coming soon?, posted by BusMgr on Thu May 17 15:03:03 2018. What you say is true. The probability of missing a bus is the same regardless of which stop you are waiting at. So maybe I didn't make myself clear enough.What I am saying is that with fewer bus stops and longer walks, the probability of missing the bus you would have caught at the eliminated stop is greater when you have to walk further. Let's say you leave your house at 8:07. You get to the stop at 8:10 and the bus arrives at 8:11. You get on and get off at 8:22 and you are at your destination. Total trip time is 15 minutes. Let's say the stop is no longer there and you now have to walk three extra blocks to the next stop. You still leave your house at 8:07, but you don't get to the bus stop until 8:13. The bus passed your old stop at 8:11 and the stop you are now waiting at at 8:12. You just miss it. The next bus comes at 8:23. You get on and you get off at 8:34. Total trip time is now 27 minutes instead of 15 minutes. Of course this may only happen on every fourth trip with the trip taking no longer the other three times. But why should it happen at all? Also, if the bus is running every 20 or 30 minutes, the difference in trip times would even be greater. |
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