On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Peter Elderson <pelder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In that case it is a service-thing rather than a route-thing. Is it > generally used like that? > The wiki just mentions the co-location of start/endpoint of the route. > > I'm going by what I've encountered in various towns and cities. I've seen many routes where the bus goes from A->B, passengers disembark at B, new passengers board at B and the bus then goes from B->A. It's not a round trip. Even if you buy a return ticket or have an unlimited use ticket, you still have to get off at B. Often there is a 5 or 10 minute (or longer) layover at B while the driver has a piss or a cup of coffee or a smoke (or all three at once, perhaps). I've also seen routes where it truly is a round trip (and most of those were also circulars). With an unlimited ticket you could stay on the bus all day. I met one guy who did because in winter it cost him too much to heat his house, so there he was on the bus with a packed lunch, several cans of beer (illegal) and a happy grin. There is also a route I've yet to map, and am struggling to figure out how to do it. One of the things I can handle is still pertinent: it goes from the bus station (A) like this: A->B->C->D->A->B->P->A->Z->A->B [out of service] -> A. Z is actually a roundabout, with no official stops between it and A, merely so the bus can enter A in one direction and come back in the other. But it's a hail-and-ride service, so theoretically it's possible to get off or on at Z. Over the entire route it's not a round trip even though it visits some parts of the route more than once. Actually, I simplified a lot. There are aspects of that route I can't figure out how to handle. -- Paul
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