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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by chgs on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:00PM (#40556038)
Who benefits from running empty buses?

What population density do you need to sustain a 15 minute service from point A to point B on a Sunday at 6am? Or 9pm?

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by blactuary on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:07PM (#40556089)
The point is that if you fund transit instead of subsidizing cars in a hundred different ways, the buses will not be empty
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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by nilamo on Sunday June 02, 2024 @02:56PM (#40556439)
Who benefits from not having service?
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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by chgs on Sunday June 02, 2024 @04:08PM (#40556874)
The driver who ain’t carting air around. The environment that isn’t burning fuel to cart air around.

At some point it becomes far more efficient to simply provide on demand service.

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Re:In Colorado, an Ambitious New Highway Policy Is Not Build... by nilamo on Sunday June 02, 2024 @05:01PM (#40557170)
But we're not comparing a bus with an on demand service, we're comparing it with no buses...?
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