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Originally Posted by M1EK
If anybody else was there, I was the guy who asked the question about singletrack on Manor.
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I know! And it was about the stupidest question I heard all night...
I mean think about it. Single track the entire length of Manor would mean that you could not operate more than a single vehicle on that segment without causing major bottlenecks at each end and disruptions to the schedule of the entire system. The round trip between UT and Mueller would probably take 30-45 minutes. The exisitng #20 bus provides better service than that even on weekends.
On the other hand, Manor road traffic is light enough that double-tracked shared lanes would probably allow reliable headways of 15 minutes with little schedule variation.
Dedicated lanes are great, but not when they are single-tracked. If you look back in previous posts, you will see that I predicted that most of the alignment would end up being dedicated lane (with the possible exception of Manor)