A frequent suggestion for cutting transit costs is to use smaller buses--usually a misguided suggestion, as most of the expense comes from paying the driver rather than fueling and maintaining the bus. But there is one very good reason that we should use smaller buses in USA...
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40' buses are standard here in Western MA, with a few shorter 35' and 30' buses mixed in, plus a couple of 60' articulated buses. City buses in Japan tend to range from 22' to 35'pic.twitter.com/LIoGGS2IuS
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This might be a bit of my parochialism showing through, but at least here in Massachusetts, tight corners and busy streets make the standard 40-footers very cumbersome...factor in that they aren't crowded for most of the day, and you see how smaller buses could be very useful!
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This doesn't make sense. Why would the most car-oriented and speed-oriented country in the world have corners so tight that buses cannot turn?
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Here's one that I deal with every day--Maple and Suffolk Streets in Holyoke MA. My bus home turns left here, but this involves swinging into the oncoming lane or driving over the curb, and is very difficult if there's any oncoming traffic.pic.twitter.com/OYVYNWiSLd
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RIGHT, sorry, not left--the bus turns right
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