Important point here! A bit overstated--transit functions well even if it's not operating at capacity--but the point holds, there is a GAP between what car traffic is capable of and what transit is designed forhttps://twitter.com/poiThePoi/status/1004049716177498114 …
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Replying to @380kmh
TBF, the question is: At what point does buying a fleet of quarter-million dollar buses (and paying the drivers and paying the pensions and paying the mechanics) make more sense than just having the riders all buy cars?
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Replying to @poiThePoi @380kmh
And the answer to that seems to be 10 minute headways. Ideally 6, but 10 if you can do it. /Also, buses without bus lanes... I took the bus from Mountain View to Palo Alto *once* (Dentist's appointment + afternoon meetings). 45 minutes for 6 miles at noon!
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re: travel times without lanes...my commute by bus is long distance on pretty fast roads with no heavy traffic (between cities, not within one), but it still takes an hour to go 18 miles (partly bc I have to make a transfer halfway through it)
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by car it takes about 25 minutes; by train (there is a railway on this exact corridor, but it only gets once-a-day Amtrak service) it could take just 15 minutes!
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