> If you can have more buses on more routes for the same capital and operating cost as fewer, big buses, you'll increae ridership. The problem is, you probabl

> If you can have more buses on more routes for the same capital and operating cost as fewer, big buses, you'll increae ridership. The problem is, you probably only have a limited number of suitable arteries, so those routes are going to have places where they overlap. There are bus stops near me which at peak times have multiple buses per minute arriving, on many different routes, and at peak times these sometimes pile up and have to wait to load and unload. That's with big hundred-person double-deckers; it would be far worse if they were smaller.