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Bus per long road
Rather than a bus service that tries to cover as much teriritory in a limited set of routes, instead there is the long road bus service and it is a bus service that drives a single long road in a loop from the top to the bottom and back again. You make your way to the arterial route and can switch buses along the long roads. |
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For example if there is a long road the culminates in a train station, all the long roads leading up to it have their own bus service.
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Sounds great... if you get to build your own city. Retrofitting is another art. |
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From a mathematical topological point of view, most bus services already do this. |
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But do they do it chronologically? |
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//do they do it chronologically?// Well yes, most buses I have experience use time as a means of covering their route. I think that technically, a bus that was at every location along the route simultaneously would (a) not require wheels or an engine, and (b) be extremely long. The corollary is that the passengers would have to board their bus, and then walk along the bus until they were level with their destination, and then disembark, which is not very user-friendly. |
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To clarify, each designated long road would have its own service of that simple route and it's own bus - there are multiple separate buses. Each bus assigned to a road section |
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Each long road would have a bus for that long road |
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The goal of the bus service is to get you far along that road |
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You in effect catch multiple buses on all the main roads until you get to your destination. To clarify you switch buses. |
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There would be inconveniences with an un traditional having to wait for the bus to loop back round if you missed the last time |
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I was thinking you could hail the bus rather than have designated bus stops too |
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This has the convenience that every bus you see going in a direction down the road is a good option to hail that bus for making the next part of the journey |
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Some cities take a hub and spoke model like London. But there's no reason you couldn't ask to be dropped off at a different point on a long road, perhaps walking onto a different long road and then catching the bus going the right way on that road. |
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// You in effect catch multiple buses on all the main roads until you get to your destination. To clarify you switch buses. // |
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This still sounds a lot like existing bus services. I mean, what do buses do where you live that is not this? |
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Designated bus stops are there for good legal and traffic management porpoises. |
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... and bus services that do without them also exist (though these are not the norm). |
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