The same in reverse: adding frequency will make the service more useful, encouraging people to make trips that they otherwise wouldn't make, and therefore boosting ridership. It's the same principle of induced demand that engineers are still struggling to remember re: highways
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Trying to explain why reducing a 4-trip-per-hour bus line down to 3tph will be a much larger burden to system riders than cutting a 7-trip-per-DAY bus line down to 2tpd
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It's always the people who DON'T rely on buses who misunderstand this, I notice
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The recurring fiction is that every trip made on transit is absolutely indispensable; that if you have to wait half an hour instead of 15 minutes, you will, bc you can't NOT make the trip. Don't people realize how much travel is CASUAL and SPONTANEOUS?
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