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   Questor to All   
   Re: a dozen miscellaneous thoughts   
   01 Sep 21 17:36:09   
   
   From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 13:50:42 -0400, Xho Jingleheimerschmidt    
   wrote:   
   >On 8/30/21 6:37 AM, 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).   
   >   
   >I'd rather transfer buses and get there in 40 minutes than spend 36   
   >hours on a single Hilbert curve.   
      
   Well that's the idea.  You don't stay on one bus.  You take an avenue bus to   
   the   
   appropriate cross street, then take a cross street bus to your destination.    
   The   
   flaw in my idea is that it may take too many buses to insure timely service.   
      
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