From: snidely.too@gmail.com   
      
   Snidely pounded on thar keyboard to tell us   
   > 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.   
      
   I will note that because the OC grid isn't aligned with the OC coast,   
   there are inevitably diagonal routes.  There was even one that would   
   have been perfect for my commute ... if I could get up at 5 am every   
   day, and be finished with my office work by 4:30 pm every day.   
      
   /dps   
      
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