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Bus trips in SF are easily 3X longer than car trips on the same routes. Traffic affects cars just as much - it can’t be the reason buses are so slow. Talking ab
by closeparen 8y ago
Bus trips in SF are easily 3X longer than car trips on the same routes. Traffic affects cars just as much - it can’t be the reason buses are so slow. Talking about the time people are wasting sitting in traffic is silly - now they will be wasting even more time standing on buses.
How about some parking protected bike lanes and encouragement for e-bikes, which can actually deliver reasonable door to door times?
- itamarst 8y agoDedicated bus lanes fix that.
- claytoneast 8y agoSlow traffic is created non-linearly, i.e. if a road has a capacity of 100, it will be totally fine 0-90, but traffic will rise sharply after that point. If you could reduce the amount of cars by 10%, you could massively reduce the traffic that everyone is experiencing. So in that example, 90% of commuters will still be driving and paying tolls, but with far less traffic, and the other 10% may be on public transit/bike/walk/wfh and also experiencing far less traffic.
- btrettel 8y ago> How about some parking protected bike lanes and encouragement for e-bikes, which can actually deliver reasonable door to door times? I'm a daily transportation cyclist and I usually find parking protected bike lanes to be worse than no bike lane at all. In my experience, they greatly increase the risks at intersections due to turning drivers either not checking the bike lane for traffic or not being able to check it due to cars blocking the view.