04-04-2016, 08:34 AM
(04-04-2016, 07:56 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: We make slow progress. We hear that people want reliable service to get to multiple destinations, which meant moving from a hub-and-spoke, door-to-door system, towards a grid system. But people get concerned about inconvenience of change, and so we do change slowly. The result is that the intermediate phase can be less useful for many than either the beginning or the end phase, doubly so for those who want to live near transit and have to cope with multiple shifting patterns of routes that can make these choices perilous and impermanent.
It's a Band-Aid. Rip it off in one go.
Hear, hear.
Incremental changes to routings make residential decisions difficult. Moving to a grid is sensible: doing it slowly, though, means that people aren’t sure if a given neighbourhood will have good transit in the long term (keeping in mind Jarrett Walker’s “be on the way” principle is probably a good idea).
I am really hoping that the changes to routing when Ion starts running are thorough.