For some reason (convenience in modeling?) people assume demand for a transit line is perfectly constant regardless of the frequency: for example, that if you cut freq from 4 trips an hour to 2, crowding would double. WRONG! The service is now much less USEFUL so ridership drops!
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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