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Yes, this is why you'll see malls removing bike racks, and fighting against an extension of bus service to them in some areas.
by jeffasinger 13y ago
Yes, this is why you'll see malls removing bike racks, and fighting against an extension of bus service to them in some areas.
- VLM 13y agoThe solution to this problem which has been implemented locally is you set up a bus service regardless of any complaining, to keep one group happy, then you cut the service times and arrange the routes into insanity such that no one can use it, to keep the other group happy. When I was a kid, living in the same city, I could afford the time to burn to spend 2 hours taking the bus to a friends house and 2 hours back (this is in a roughly 4 sq mile city). When its 8 degrees and snowing, or 105 and sunny outside this is not all that bad of an idea... when its 70 degrees you take a bike or walk. Also make sure NOT to coordinate your local city bus service with neighboring cities. You can transfer between systems, if you're willing to stand in the rain for up to 45 minutes at times and pay two fares of course. This is how you have a 100K person small city, major suburb of a 4M big city, and yet from my car when I look into passing bus I never see more than one or two teens, maybe an old person, that's about it. Out of 100K potential passengers. I could take mass transit to work. I charted it out once at about 2 hours each way. Of course I can drive door to door in a bit less than 30 mins... I would save about $2 a day and that works out to about $1.33/hr which is a microscopic fraction of my current pay rate and tolerance for labor to save money. So I drive. So that's the "correct" way to implement bus service keep everyone on both sides happy.