I find the buses I ride in Western MA are often too long to handle corners w/o driving over a curb or forcing oncoming traffic to back up...
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...and I imagine it's the same in other cities with tighter corners or narrower streets. So why are 40' buses the standard?
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Full size city buses in Japan range from 7m to 10.5m in length, or 23 to 34 feet. In USA, it's 29 to 40 feet...are ours that much busier?pic.twitter.com/bafqCIhkoP
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One of my favorite minibus designs, the Hino Poncho, ranges from 7.1m-8m in lengthpic.twitter.com/5Vk9IFKdPZ
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Usually people pushing for smaller buses in the US think it'll save money (which it rarely does bc the driver is the most expensive part)...
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...but I think there's a much better case to be made for using smaller buses to work with street geometry better
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This would mean currently crowded routes would get more crowded...but most bus routes operate well below capacity, so not a huge problem
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