Re: Bus Privatization

[Magnus Homann <d0asta@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>]

Vaughan Williams <ender2000@my-deja.com> writes:

> > 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.

This is not unique. Here we also have synched transfers, such that the
bus waits for the train, and sometimes buses waiting for other buses.

However, most people prefer a direct connection, and they had to
re-instate some direct buses that had been removed previously.

The tram system is also being re-worked and expanded, so as to
minimize transfers. The goals i max one transfer, whereever you are
going.

Homann
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Magnus Homann, M.Sc. CS & E
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