(08 May 2024, 6:53 pm)Shrek wrote When people talk about the continental model that's exactly why it works. I've travelled in cities like Prague, Stockholm, Riga where you get the bus from the suburbs to a hub which then takes you speedily into the centre. Making people get a bus to kick them off within touching distance of the city to be forced onto a metro definitely won't and would likely either stop people traveling to the cities to spend money, or jump back in the car and the whole project fails.
Yep pretty much and as a result of everyone getting dumped it at one place, it means you can have a very frequent service between the hub and the main destination at the same time. It's a great model and works in London aswell really hence the tube can run every 4 minutes or whatever it is and still be standing load. Always amuses me somewhere like Ealing Broadway where you can have a standing Central Line train (pre Crossrail) before even leaving the station.
https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-map...251123.pdf - Can see it working really well there. No bus station either, god help them...