Apparently! I've never heard of a technical obstacle to this, just inertia and bloody-mindedness
They treat connections as the exception rather than the rule--a driver scolded me once for not calling ahead for her to wait for my bus (which arrived on-time, she left just as we arrived). And this at least was an intra-garage situation.
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The bus left early?
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we arrived at 6:00 as scheduled, the other bus took off at 6:00 as scheduled--it neglected to wait even 10 seconds in case people wanted to transfer, though
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The buses don't have even 2-3 minutes of pad?
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not at this connection (the inter-garage one I use to get to work has 5 minutes pad in both directions)
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Is it on purpose, or is it a byproduct of constraints elsewhere? (I guess the problem is that you need multiple pulse points...)
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Depending on traffic, there is a de-facto pad at the intra-garage transfer (ie, my bus normally arrives a minute or three *before* the hour)
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but all of this is beside the point: the driver ignored that another bus was just arriving, and took off without waiting in spite of this
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because the default assumption is that passengers will interrupt their driver and ask them to call another bus every time they want to transfer
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Do you know what % of passengers are transferring? I know that transferring can have a huge penalty with the frequencies on some of the routes but I’d assume it’s still done more than occasionally
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I think we have some data on this but would need to dig around a bit
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