From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Lo, on the 9/1/2021, Questor did proclaim ...   
   > 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.   
      
   That's a relatively new idea.  You say there's a worm in the apple?   
      
   > 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.   
      
   You can't write a bus schedule that makes everyone happy.  And many   
   cities can't write a bus schedule.   
      
   /dps   
      
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