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**Doc O'Leary**

In article ,
(Matthew T. Russotto) wrote:

In article ,
Bill Baka wrote:

Anything which makes a bus more efficient would make a car even more
efficient than the bus. Right now transit buses waste fuel big time.

Only if nobody rides them.

But you have to have the near-empty runs or the system becomes
less useful overall -- and as a result ridership goes down even on the
popular runs.

No, that's just another failure of urban planning. Modern technology
could easily be used to help schedule the frequency and size of transit
vehicles. It should even be possible possible to provide door-to-door
service for the same cost per mile as fuel alone (say around $3 for 25
miles), but somehow city planners got focussed on moving the cars
instead of the people.

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