Re:Why Do Buses Bunch?
by cimmanom on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:46PM
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My experience on crowded buses is that typically every stop gets rung for anyway, so skipping isn’t an option.
Of course, if it were possible to open only the back doors and let people off but not on, that might help, at the expense of leaving the people waiting to get on enraged. But then you also have the problem that on a crowded bus it can be really tough to squeeze past the rest of the passengers to get off, which also slows everything down.
The whole thing is miserable, and mostly these routes just need more buses (plus the articulated ones that hold 60% more people).
Of course, if it were possible to open only the back doors and let people off but not on, that might help, at the expense of leaving the people waiting to get on enraged. But then you also have the problem that on a crowded bus it can be really tough to squeeze past the rest of the passengers to get off, which also slows everything down.
The whole thing is miserable, and mostly these routes just need more buses (plus the articulated ones that hold 60% more people).