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Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by jermaustin1 » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:32 PM UTC

Just measured the bus line I used to take from Edgewater, NJ into Manhattan (measured first stop in Edgwater to last stop in Weehawken), and it averages a little over 250m between stops, but they range from around 125m-700m between stops.

One stop that always angered me was my bus stop to the next was 125m. Basically across the intersection, and there was almost always a single person over there, causing us to accelerate then stop.

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by lousken » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:33 PM UTC

In Prague the usual distance is between 400 and 600m [0].

[0] http://standardzastavek.pid.cz/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/st...

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by jolopy » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:36 PM UTC

In Freiburg/Germany (250k inhabitants), the mean distance between bus stops is 634m, more distant than those of the tram (453m). Freiburg has more trams (72) than busses (65) running on 44 km of rails and the sum of all bus routes is 160 km. [1]

Trams run in short intervals and they are convenient when they're near, but switching from tram to bus carries a high time penalty two out of three times.

[1] https://www.vag-freiburg.de/die-vag/ueber-uns

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by broz » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

Here is Buenos Aires average is around 200-300m, which I personally find too short. I remember one time seeing two bus stops literally 20-25 meters away from each other. The bus needed to take left on a two lane road so it would circle the block, there was a bus stop just before entering the circle and just before leaving it. Driving distance was ~400m, but walking was a few steps.

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by AndrewDucker » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

20% of stops in Edinburgh are less than 200m from the previous stop, 40% between 200m and 300m and 20% between 300m and 400 metres.

From http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/download/meetings/id/58073/item_...

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by algorias » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:39 PM UTC

For Switzerland, that distance sounds about right, tending more towards 100m (in major cities). There is bound to be a dataset somewhere: being a tiny country means that we map everything in great detail, and the government takes these topics quite seriously. Some links to get you started:

https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/geo-information-switzerland/geod...

You can also visualize a lot of the topographic data on map.geo.admin.ch, which is surprisingly useful/flexible, if not very user friendly.

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by eb0la » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:47 PM UTC

algorias wrote: post #26

For Switzerland, that distance sounds about right, tending more towards 100m (in major cities). There is bound to be a dataset somewhere: being a tiny country means that we map everything in great detail, and the government takes these topics quite seriously. Some links to get you started: https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/geo-information-switzerland/geod... https://www.geo.admin.ch/en/geo-information-switzerland/geod... Y…

Also, your goberment ask people about stuff like if it OK to deploy 5G in the country ;-)

(I must confess I find that awesome).

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by SOLAR_FIELDS » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:48 PM UTC

lelima wrote: post #16

I live in Dublin and I take the bus everyday, is mad, I'm talking sometimes less than 50m. The stop in front of my house and the next one is only three houses away, Georgian style, so no mansions or huge houses. The transport in Dublin is horrible and is on top 5 of most expensive public transport systems. (No subway)

If you live and work along the Luas it’s not so bad. But otherwise yeah it’s shite.

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by eequah9L » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:49 PM UTC

Prague

Per [0] (2001; in Czech), average distance between subway stations is 1038m, tram stops 500m and bus stops 698m.

A related metric is walking distance from home to public transportation stop. Per [1] (2011; in Czech), most of people in the city need to walk less than 5 minutes to reach a stop. (There's a table with a breakdown by walking time and city part in chapter 7.) The same work cites average walking speed as 88.69 m/min, which gives you, for most inhabitants, [0] http://envis.praha-mesto.cz/rocenky/DZ_OO/pril_practexty/BK0... [1] https://dspace.cuni.cz/bitstream/handle/20.500.11956/51223/B...

(EDIT: Updated units.)

Re: Ask HN: How close together are your bus stops?

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Post by nathell » Tue, May 28, 2019, 1:50 PM UTC

In Warsaw, Poland, the mean distance between bus stops is 1,041 metres. This may seem a lot, but the distribution is heavily skewed by the fact that Warsaw has 4 express bus lines: not taking these into account, the mean is 699 metres.

Source (Polish): https://warszawa.wikia.org/wiki/Autobusy