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All the talk about 'government waste' in this thread makes me think of my home town, where you still regularly see massive city buses driving around town withou
by flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
All the talk about 'government waste' in this thread makes me think of my home town, where you still regularly see massive city buses driving around town without a single passenger riding in them.
Moving people on demand is definitely not cheap, but surely it is more cost effective that casting a net of mostly-empty buses around the city for half the day.
- resonantjacket5 7y agoIt’s the coverage vs frequency (ridership) decision. https://humantransit.org/2018/02/basics-the-ridership-coverage-tradeoff.html https://humantransit.org/2018/02/basics-the-ridership-covera... This via service is for coverage not ridership that’s why people are comparing the wrong thing. Many American cities aka San Jose being the most recent example are retooling their bus routes for fewer but more frequent routes at the cost of cutting the coverage routes.