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Orbital transport & urban motorways (was Warwick Gardensat night)
Dave Arquati wrote:
You're missing a rather significant point - which is how the people on the M25 bus got onto it in the first place. You either need a large number of bus routes from each centre of population within the travel-to-work area for Staines, or you need feeder buses from the origin towns too. If it's the latter, as I suspect you are suggesting, then any journey to Staines that way will involve *at least* 2 changes. .... That perfect journey takes 55 minutes. The AA say it takes about 30 minutes by car. Therefore, the near-perfect PT alternative takes nearly twice as long. You may have provided a vastly superior PT service to the current offering, but it still can't compete with the car for orbital journeys. The additional problem is that this is a gross over-simplification. How likely is it that the commuter actually lives in Reigate town centre, or at least within a few hundred metres of the road between the town centre and the motorway? For most people, this problem can be much alleviated by cycling the first and/or last leg. When changing from PT to bike there is no waiting time, and because bike journey times are so accurately predictable, only a couple of minutes are lost when changing the other way. If people can easily and quickly get 2 or 3 miles to their transport hub, many fewer points need to be served by PT, and it becomes much easier for it to compete with the private car. From where I live, I can walk to two tube stations, on different lines, in 7 or 12 minutes respectively. But in 12 minutes I can cycle to at least 4 more stations, giving me access to about 6 extra rail and tube services. By starting by bike, I can get to much of London with no changes - and to virtually all of the south-east with one change. And the journey times will compete well with the car too. Colin McKenzie |
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