From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Les Albert submitted this response:   
   > On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 10:37:48 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
      
   > ...   
   >> I think that in cities that are largely laid out in a grid pattern, public   
   >> transit buses should travel in a square wave pattern up and down on the   
   >> avenues and back and forth on the cross streets.  it Seems to me there would   
   >> be a bus coming along every few minutes, and one could get anywhere in the   
   >> grid with just one transfer from an avenue bus to a cross street bus (or   
   >> vice versa).   
   >   
   > Parts of New York City have a grid set-up like that.  I used to travel   
   > from 21st St. on the east side to about the level of 8th St. and   
   > transfer to get to the far west side of Greenwich Village.   
      
   Parts of Orange County have a setup like that.  At one point I was   
   using it, and it made for long rides.   
      
   (It's not actually a square wave; the southbound buses on Route X don't   
   become northbound buses on Route X+1, they simply u-turn.)   
      
   (Further, on many routes, there are several buses southbound on Route X   
   at the same time, separated by a prescribed headway.  There are at the   
   same time several buses northbound on Route X, separated by the same   
   prescribed headway.  That headway, even on busy routes like Katella and   
   like Harbor or beach, was enough to make for few convenient transfers.)   
      
   I am very happy not to be scheduling bus services.   
      
   /dps   
      
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