İzmir: 300m in city proper, 100m in suburbs.
Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?
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#62İzmir: 300m in city proper, 100m in suburbs.
Stops in the suburbs are closer than in the city center?
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#63In Houston, the bus and rails lines have stops about every 200m (2 blocks). Many of the lines have big gaps between stops (in the multiples of KMs), typically going to a transit center.
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#64I feel sad about my country (Philppines) as buses and jeepneys could literally stop anywhere they like which results into heavy traffic.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing you have no physical issues and don't think twice about walking 10 blocks. I (usually) don't either but that doesn't describe everyone and am able to just grab a cab or a Lyft if not.
Take the 18th Street stop. You actually can't get in or out of this station without using stairs AFAIK. There are other stations like this. Are you really using these stations if you're unable to walk a few blocks? It's expensive in time and money to stop and start the trains. Also you need to maintain a station and employ people there. If you want to provide for those with physical difficulties where walking 4 block…
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The house my father grew up in in San Jose is now worth multi-millions but my grandmother couldn't possibly have paid the ever increasing property taxes while she was still alive and I think people would have whined about subsidies in well-off neighborhoods like you're doing now. I mean, she lived in that house since the late '40s and Silicon Valley just kind of moved in next door...
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#67https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Transit_Feed_Specifica... is the most used file format. Public transport companies used to submit their information to Google Maps and similar (the 'G' used to stand for 'Google'). You can find those searching for 'GTFS ' in various open data portals. Alternatively OpenStreetMap is a huge global dataset. Buses are a small part of https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transpo…
Check out the registry of GTFS feeds at https://transit.land/feed-registry/!
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#68It's obviously density related, even in London.
It is also obvious that nobody on HN lives in the sticks. Or, if they do, then they drive and therefore have precisely zero interest in bus stops.
My country dwelling parents have a bus stop outside their door. There is one bus per day - weekdays only - and that is only in one direction. This I find mind-boggling. A shopping trip would require an overnight stay in town and for a full circuit of the route to be completed. Somewhere there is a bus driver getting paid for that and a local authority that has mandated this service be put on.
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#69In NYC, it depends heavily on the bus line. Some stop nearly every block (which can be as little as every 100m) whereas some have more widely-spaced stops. The buses here are notorious for running very slowly (and thus behind schedule), and one of the proposals to speed some some slow buses is to eliminate stops on lines where they are densely clustered. It's become a subject of considerable debate, as residents and…
There's an important distinction to be made here -- in Manhattan, in general, there are crosstown buses and buses which go uptown or downtown. And there are 2 kinds of 'block' in Manhattan, 'long blocks' are crosstown (east/west) and 'short blocks' which are north/south. Long blocks are irregular depending on where you are, and are typically much longer than short blocks ~3x. Most uptown and downtown buses offer limi…
Stupid question, probably. But I'm not American.
Is a "block" just a continuous building with no gaps for a road or pavement?
i.e.
[#########building##########] [###### building###] [###]
Can you have "blocks" with a lot of detached houses, I would guess that yes you can? So that makes me think its blocks of possibly many buildings between roads?
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#70I guess one could use openstreetmap data here, since they have pretty comprehensive coverage of bus stops, at least in Europe.
Also, national or regional data might be more complete. If you can speak enough German to navigate the download, you can e.g. find geodata of all bus stops in Zurich at https://maps.zh.ch/?topic=ZVVZH&showtab=ogddownload (they will only deliver to email addresses, so I cannot link the actual data here).
Zürich Tram and Bus distance (beeline) between stops of trips:
Mean 199m
Median 172m
Min 14m (Zürich, Central Zürich, Central Polybahn)
Max 678m (Pfäffikon SZ, Bahnhof Pfäffikon SZ, Schiffstation)
According to a dataset of 1744 trips from https://data.stadt-zuerich.ch/dataset/vbz_fahrplandaten_gtfs