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For two trips a day; they're effectively charter buses. And a lot of them take very long, circuitous journeys; my kid's bus comes at 6:45 AM, long before school

For two trips a day; they're effectively charter buses. And a lot of them take very long, circuitous journeys; my kid's bus comes at 6:45 AM, long before school starts! Now make them run every 10-15 minutes so anyone can get anywhere any time, also add a bunch of transfer points and intermodal nodes...

dragontamer 5y ago
> Now make them run every 10-15 minutes so anyone can get anywhere any time, also add a bunch of transfer points and intermodal nodes... Lets start with the basics. To-and-from work, which is likely the #1 use of people's gasoline.
- FeepingCreature 5y ago
  This creates an interesting work model: drive to work via company bus in the morning, drive home via company bus in the evening, just leave your laptop on the bus. Travel time counts as work time. Same route twice a day, so everybody works the same length.
- abalashov 5y ago
  That's the whole point. School is just one destination in which all the school buses converge...
  - dragontamer 5y ago
    My high-school only had 2000 students, and elementary/middle school had only a fraction of that. Surely a lot of us work on campuses / office complexes that have more than 2000 office workers? If we have bus systems that can effectively serve ~500 person elementary schools or ~300 person elementary schools, surely we can serve a 5000-person office complex with some kind of mass-transit option?
Retric 5y ago
It’s normally 4 cycles a day. 2 for high school kids and 2 for elementary school kids. That’s why some of the circuits are so long they don’t pick up kids at a large fraction of houses they pass buy. Busses close to the school then do multiple routes because they can fill up so quickly. It should be obvious how that same basic model could get someone from any location to any location in a county twice a day. It would just be really inconvenient compared to cars.

dragontamer 5y ago

> Now make them run every 10-15 minutes so anyone can get anywhere any time, also add a bunch of transfer points and intermodal nodes... Lets start with the basics. To-and-from work, which is likely the #1 use of people's gasoline.

FeepingCreature 5y ago
This creates an interesting work model: drive to work via company bus in the morning, drive home via company bus in the evening, just leave your laptop on the bus. Travel time counts as work time. Same route twice a day, so everybody works the same length.
abalashov 5y ago
That's the whole point. School is just one destination in which all the school buses converge...
- dragontamer 5y ago
  My high-school only had 2000 students, and elementary/middle school had only a fraction of that. Surely a lot of us work on campuses / office complexes that have more than 2000 office workers? If we have bus systems that can effectively serve ~500 person elementary schools or ~300 person elementary schools, surely we can serve a 5000-person office complex with some kind of mass-transit option?

Retric 5y ago

It’s normally 4 cycles a day. 2 for high school kids and 2 for elementary school kids. That’s why some of the circuits are so long they don’t pick up kids at a large fraction of houses they pass buy. Busses close to the school then do multiple routes because they can fill up so quickly. It should be obvious how that same basic model could get someone from any location to any location in a county twice a day. It would just be really inconvenient compared to cars.