Hail & ride can be a great idea both on a housing estate and in some
rural areas. A CUS stop is not really like this. A CUS stop is a single
place that a bus will stop, sometimes in an isolated place, sometimes
near another stop, but without a sign to say so. I have surveyed a
couple of thousand bus stops both in a city and in rural areas and the
point of having a bus stop without a sign continues to escape me.
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Cheers, Chris
user: chillly
On 24/11/11 10:27, Kev js1982 wrote:
Preston bus (used?) to operate on a hail and ride basis - i.e. it
would stop anywhere on the estates to pick people up and set them down
- in reality this became a few set places (i.e. where the footpath was
paved up to the road edge rather than having a grass verge) but still
rather handy actually!
the set down places still seam to be used but the pick up places are
all bus stop a now (however there are more than there used to be -
most installed where people used to "hail and ride"). Seams to be a
sensible idea for a new build estate - put the paths and bus stops
where the people want then!
Also a couple of buses a day were extended past the terminus so there
was a customary stop opposite the terminus (now signed on the route I
know best as its no longer a terminus for most services!).
On Nov 24, 2011 9:22 AM, "Chris Hill" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Andy Allan <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>Also, in my opinion, unmarked bus stops are a daft concept to begin
>with, seemingly dreamed up to make life harder than it needs to be!
+1 Why would you have a stop without a sign as a deliberate
strategy? It completely defies the idea of bus stops being marked
as a place to wait knowing a bus will stop there.
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Cheers, Chris (osm:chillly)
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