Re: Bus Privatization

["John" <jkerr@dps.org>]

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"Vaughan Williams" <ender2000@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> > The catch is that people don't like to transfer. A direct bus is more
> > valuable than a bus and transfer to rail.
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> 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.
>
Portland, also, has several points for such transfers
At Rose Quarter, the same platforms for bus and rail occur.