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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Be careful. The area I mention has relatively high transit usage. Hunt Club is designed as a pseudo highway with development facing away from it. Nobody wants to live on a traffic sewer. Unfortunately, all suburbs are designed this way out of necessity. Bus routes need to serve people not highways. The theory that has been presented will only be effective in pre-war parts of the city where businesses follow the arterials and access to the neighbouring residential areas is very good, ie many cross streets.
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I don't claim to know that area very well, so I can't comment on specifics. I just don't agree that suburbs are designed with arterials with nothing on them an no easy access "out of necessity". That is just poor, car-oriented planning and nothing else.
Yes, bus routes need to serve people, However, the point is that infrequent meandering routes that go right to where people live are not providing worthwhile service, and therefore they tend to see little ridership outside of peak periods. I would argue that frequent service routes, despite being further away, provide better service and will attract more people. If the connectivity in the neighbourhood is so poor that people can't easily access their adjacent arterials, then that needs to change. We can never expect to improve ridership with the status quo - it's been tried for decades without success.