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Look at a line of 60 cars with 1 person each, taking up quarter of a mile. One car every two seconds. Then look at a bus with 60 people taking up 20 yards. One
by isostatic 8y ago
Look at a line of 60 cars with 1 person each, taking up quarter of a mile. One car every two seconds.
Then look at a bus with 60 people taking up 20 yards. One bus a minute.
Then look at a train 200 yards long with 1000 people every 3 minutes.
Which is more wasteful?
- kalleboo 8y ago> One bus a minute The dedicated bus lane we're talking about here appears to have one bus every 30 minutes (GP said it was a line out to the airport). So it's natural to look at a dedicated road lane that sees two vehicles an hour and think "what a waste, would it really hurt to let some cars drive here too?". But nobody looks at a train track the same way since you're used to seeing train tracks without a bunch of traffic on them. And yet an extra lane is cheaper to build & maintain. So it's understandable to look at the dedicated lane and think that it's inefficient, when in really it isn't.
- jimktrains2 8y ago> The dedicated bus lane we're talking about here appears to have one bus every 30 minutes The West Busway doesn't go to the airport and has buses serving the communities it runs through ever few minutes.