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Originally Posted by Atomic Glee
If I may interject...I hear this all the time as a reason of the bus's supposed superiority to rail transit. "If you need to, you can change the bus's route." That's precisely one of the *disadvantages* of the bus in a lot of ways. A light rail line or streetcar is always in the same place. People can count on it. People can plan for it. Developers can build around it. People can figure out easily where the train comes from, where it goes, and where they can pick it up. Buses, by their very nature of not having fixed guideways, don't have those advantages. They are more nebulous. That's one of the reasons they don't attract ridership like rail transit does.
Sometimes, the advantages don't always work out to be advantages. The "flexibility" of the bus is often a good example of that.
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as well the MAX is a far more pleasant way to commute than the stinky, noisey bus rides. we need both, we need transit at scales and the bus serves the smallest scale - aside from the bicycle.