Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Operation Remove Garage Terminators


I don't advocate for the title, but it is clickbait. Get baited.

Or maybe own garages' forecourt stands (if not garage itself) so every garage terminator route can be like 33, a free-for-all.

Self explanatory. The post is more of an excuse for collecting data I could reference easily, without having to go through a bunch of sources post-haste.

2023 Edit: 171 has since been kicked out of standing inside Catford (TL) so runs out-of-service to Downham and runs back to stand outside Catford (TL) adding up to 15 minutes of time to schedule. Sorry I guess?
 

Sunday, 9 October 2022

Interworked routes

As usual I watch transport videos on YouTube, I watch Not Just Bikes regularly and watched his video on Switzerland's trains. Which cites an article on The integrated timetables of Switzerland, an article by Jokteur.

So I've decided to see how much of the bus network is integrated timetable-wise, between bus routes and bus routes with train connections, if London has any. No doubt outside London there are cases, especially with low-frequency routes, though the easily changed train timetables does make keeping on track of connection guarantee a work and a half, though that's a work the Netherlands and Switzerland are proud to do, in order to achieve over 90% train punctuality and especially over 90% connection guarantee nationwide.
Connections between buses and trains also accounted for.

So what can the creator of the trains, United Kingdom, offer for it's capital London?

Spoiler alert: I overfocussed on buses.

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Also, a non-mandatory part 1: Interworked iBus-display-ETM