The other thing I would note is that most people don't live right along the
bus route. Transit planners use a rule of thumb that most people won't walk
more than a quarter mile to get to a transit stop. Spacing out the stops
further would reduce the number of people who would live within that quarter
mile, either requiring more buses to service an area or reducing ridership.
The bus system is working to provide alternatives which do what you are
talking about. There are three types of bus routes in particular which
respond to this need:
- Skip routes: Like the route 50, which is the 16A route that runs from
downtown Minneapolis to downtown St Paul. The 50 bus only stops at major
intersections, skipping stops between and providing a faster ride.
- Express routes: mostly from park-and-rides into the downtowns, express
routes go directly from one location to another.
- Local-express routes: Routes which are local for part of the trip and
than an express for part of the trip. The 94L goes down Lake Street and
gets on I94 at Creten and goes into downtown St Paul.
Carol Becker
Longfellow
----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas desCombaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: busses
> In response to Matthea Smith objections to my bus
> plan:
>
> I think parents with small children were accounted for
> in the "other special exceptions" clause that I made.
> Meaning that, parents with small children would
> warrant a special stop if they requested one, or
> flagged a bus down.
>
> If we seperated bus stops by four blocks, the absolute
> maximum possible addition to any trip would be two
> blocks. I can illustrate this. Firstly, the traveller
> goes to the intersection where the nearest bus stop
> once was. Secondly, the traveller chooses the nearest
> bus stop. The nearest bus stop would be where the
> person is currently standing; if they where facing the
> street, one to two blocks to their left, or one to two
> blocks to their right. Thirdly, the traveller would
> walk the extra distance, if there was any. Not too
> much to ask.
>
> If this is too radical, perhaps the bus company could
> have special rush hour rules that implemented this.
>
> Douglas desCombaz
> Whittier
>
>
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