[Tagging] roundtrip

Peter Elderson pelderson at gmail.com
Fri May 25 10:57:00 UTC 2018


woud the roundtrip tag help you with that?

2018-05-25 12:51 GMT+02:00 Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com>:

>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 11:20 AM, Peter Elderson <pelderson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> In that case it is a service-thing rather than a route-thing. Is it
>> generally used like that?
>> The wiki just mentions the co-location of start/endpoint of the route.
>>
>> I'm going by what I've encountered in various towns and cities.
>
> I've seen many routes where the bus goes from A->B, passengers disembark
> at B,
> new passengers board at B and the bus then goes from B->A.  It's not a
> round trip.
> Even if you buy a return ticket or have an unlimited use ticket, you still
> have to get
> off at B.  Often there is a 5 or 10 minute (or longer) layover at B while
> the driver
> has a piss or a cup of coffee or a smoke (or all three at once, perhaps).
>
> I've also seen routes where it truly is a round trip (and most of those
> were also
> circulars).  With an unlimited ticket you could stay on the bus all day.
> I met one
> guy who did because in winter it cost him too much to heat his house, so
> there
> he was on the bus with a packed lunch, several cans of beer (illegal) and
> a happy
> grin.
>
> There is also a route I've yet to map, and am struggling to figure out how
> to
> do it.  One of the things I can handle is still pertinent: it goes from
> the bus station
> (A) like this: A->B->C->D->A->B->P->A->Z->A->B [out of service] -> A.  Z
> is
> actually a roundabout, with no official stops between it and A, merely so
> the bus
> can enter A in one direction and come back in the other.  But it's a
> hail-and-ride
> service, so theoretically it's possible to get off or on at Z.  Over the
> entire route
> it's not a round trip even though it visits some parts of the route more
> than once.
> Actually, I simplified a lot.  There are aspects of that route I can't
> figure out how
> to handle.
>
> --
> Paul
>
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