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Re: why do buses always come in 3s? , math book?
Posted:
May 25, 2000 6:25 PM
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Peter wrote:
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> In article <8gk6gr$gq$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu>, mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu
> pontificates...
> >In Seattle, the most common response I see to bunching is leapfrogging;
> >each bus will service every other stop, passing one another while people
> >are boarding. Obviously this only works with inbound (i.e. mostly in
> >the boarding phase) routes; in an outbound route, you'll still have to
> >stop at pretty much every stop anyway. I don't know whether
> >leapfrogging is established policy or just widely used. It does allow
> >the buses to both proceed faster than either one could alone.
>
> Unfortunately trolley buses (eg in Wellington) cannot leapfrog.
Seattle has trolley buses too.
They can leapfrog if they have passing loops. The Wellington City
Council took down all of the passing loops about 10 years ago, to save
the cost of maintaining the switches, which were being battered about
because of the cheapskate poles then being used which flew off the wires
all the time.
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