Re: Bus Privatization

["C. P. Zilliacus" <patrick.zilliacus@mix.cpcug.org>]

In article <8vc707$3b8$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > The catch is that people don't like to transfer. A direct bus is
more
> > valuable than a bus and transfer to rail.
>
> They don't seem to mind if you make it easy for them. This is one of
> the (to my knowledge) unique features in Toronto, though a few other
> places seem to have copied it. They go to a lot of trouble to make it
> easy to transfer. This means keeping walking distances very short at
> interchanges, having buses and trams stop on both sides of busy or
> wide intersections (so that transferring passengers don't have to
> cross the  road), and at stations where buses feed the train, having
> the bus pull right into the station, not 100 metres away across the
> car park.
> Toronto designed their stations for the bus to pull up inside the
> fare paid area so that transferring passengers dont even need to
> show tickets.

Toronto has the right idea. <smile>

THE BEST rail <--> rail transfers I have seen in my travels are in
Stockholm, Sweden (T-Centralen and Slussen stops for transfers between
the Green and Red Lines (both heavy rail); and Alvik for transfer
between trolley route 12 and the Green Line and vice-versa) and in San
Diego, California, where the stops downtown are real simple for
transfer between the two trolley lines.


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