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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Again, having bus stops every 200m makes the bus slow. You're the one always complaining about how long it takes to travel on buses in the inner city... well the fact that they stop every 10 seconds is the main reason.
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Fun fact: buses don't actually stop at all of the stops.
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Judging by the experience of Toronto, K-W, and Kingston, all of which have introduced limited stop express buses on urban corridors, the speed of the 12 could be increased 20% if they cut every other bus stop.
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The key limiting factor on the 12 is not the number of stops, its lack of transit priority on the route it runs. We could have had transit-linked traffic signals 20 years ago - this being the high-tech capital of the Ottawa Valley and all. And no one is willing to sacrifice parking or vehicular priority anywhere along the route.
For the 12 in particular, there's also a problem at the Cummings Bridge, which was exacerbated by stupid, stupid, stupid, STUPID traffic-control practices on the Rideau reconstruction project much of last year. Honest to God, for all the time, trouble, and expense that the Bank and Montreal reconstructions cost (and Wellington, 15 years ago), they should just have cut and covered a transit tunnel into those streets for little additional cost!
Long dwell times on the 12, and other downtown routes, are the fault of OC Transpo for not putting enough (or any) rear-loading vehicles on these routes. Run times and schedule adherence would improve significantly without a front-loading vehicular bottleneck, but no one at OC Transpo agrees. Buses run dangerously overcrowded, but OC Transpo denies there is a problem. Operators submit reports which are ignored. Artics are for suburbanites, so not only do the suburbs get LRT quicker in the future, they get better bus service now.
You're welcome, suburbanites. You're welcome.