03-08-2017, 07:02 PM
(03-08-2017, 06:23 PM)Canard Wrote: Buses are noisy, dirty and offer poor ride quality. Trains are quiet, fast and smooth. Kind of a no-brainer to me! But whatever floats your boat...
Maybe in a city built from scratch around the public transit network, it might be possible to have everything as rail (trains, LRT, streetcars). But in an existing city, it’s hard to imagine there being no routes that make more sense as a bus every few minutes. How are you going to provide service to random residential neighbourhoods other than with buses? I don’t mean iXpress-like service, but all those local buses that drop off much closer to many people’s houses. It’s all about ridership levels and cost-effectiveness.
Of course, a higher transit mode share pushes the equation towards the rail side.