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Re: ARTICLE: The United States needs fewer bus stops |
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Posted by New Flyer #857 on Thu Feb 5 09:00:48 2026, in response to ARTICLE: The United States needs fewer bus stops, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed Feb 4 23:49:54 2026. Europe (very broadly speaking) has less traffic signals than the US. In the US it's the missed traffic cycle that gets you when you make an additional stop. Literally one person can cost the better part of a minute (whatever the length of a cycle is), so the bus can go from being a minute ahead of schedule to a minute behind just because 2 people happened to be at separate inconvenient bus stops. This is especially the case off-peak.In my travels in Europe (again, very broadly speaking -- Europe is a big place) it seems that when a vehicle makes a stop, it is at least overall slightly more likely that the delay is only as long as it takes to open the doors and let the people on/off. There are traffic signals around but more for the sake of the major plazas. . .not so much signals uniformly sync'd in a straight line up an avenue like we're used to in the US. So in Europe it's not as if every bus stop carries the penalty of a missed cycle as consistently as in the US. |
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