Editing Good Bus Service To The Suburbs

''This page is [[under construction]] so it's on the ToDoList. In a growing city, most inexpensive shelter -- both homes and apartments, will be found not downtown but out in the [[suburbs]]. Without adequate bussing, people need [[cars]] to live in [[inexpensive shelter]], which reduces the [[utility]] of [[moving]] there in the first place. [[Bus service]] to the suburbs would also allow everyone to leave their cars at home, decreasing downtown [[traffic]] and energy/carbon [[Energy Footprint|footprint]], and prepare society for [[future forms of public transit]] which pollute even less than diesel buses. So our growing city needs good bus service to the periphery: * [[Enfield]] * [[Upper Sackville]] * [[Sambro via Spryfield]] * [[Musquodboit Harbour]] * [[Head Of St Margaret's Bay]] "Good" bus service means: * that someone can get from the suburbs to the downtown in under an hour during [[business hours]], and * within about an hour and a half the rest of the time, 24 hours a day, that is, a night bus service. Night buses should run once an hour along the lines listed above. The night bus service will allow suburbanites to take part in the [http://downlode.org/etext/patterns/ptn10.html magic of the city] without exorbitant [[taxi]] costs to [[get home]] after. == Issues == One issue of [[Public Transit|public transit]] in [[North America]] involves our obsession with creating commercial, industrial and residential suburbs outside of the city center. It is easy to set up a star-model bus system, delivering people from the windy roads of the suburbs to the hub terminals in the center of town, but then transit times from those hubs back out to [[Dartmouth Crossing]] or [[Bayers Lake]] takes twice as long as going to the center of town. Meanwhile, the suburbs are more or less uniformly one type of property: commercial, residential or industrial. The residential ones end up being very boring unless one can afford transit to the mall across town. Another issue is that we don't live in a [[grid-shaped city]], for the most part. Making public transit that delivers people efficiently through a maze like [[Dartmouth]] is quite a feat. == References == *

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