PRESENT AND PROPOSED USES OF AND FACILITIES FOR URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION - PART 1
Although,
as noted earlier, public transportation presently is in financial distress, it
serves functions that must be maintained. Much urban movement, par- an
automobile that is driven alone or in a car or van pool. Advantages can include
lower costs and relief from the frustrations and strains of driving or riding
in heavy traffic. But the controlled timetable and fixed routes of buses, or
waits or uncertain length with demand-responsive systems, do not offer the
freedoms provided by the automobile or van. Commonly, the origin to destination
time by bus is longer. Also, as noted, buses may be crowded and uncomfortable
and offer no privacy, although with air conditioning and in some cases
subscription service (reserved seats for a premium fare), some of these
difficulties have been overcome.
Bus
operations are not capital intensive; rather, seven-eighths of the annual
outlays can be classed as operating expenses. This is in marked contrast to
rail where capital investments are high but, once in, require less labor. Of
course automobiles, being privately owned, require no public investment except
for highways engineering.
BUS
SELECTION. Almost all buses, excepting some minibuses, are powered by
fuel-efficient, time-proved diesel engines. Features vary: no one size or body
conformation is best adapted to all applications, so that many styles exist in
the more than 50.000 in use in public transit in the United States.
“Standard”
bus lengths are 35 and 40 ft, and widths are 96 or 102 in. The wider ones,
where permitted, give more comfortable seats and wider aisles. Seated
capacities are, respectively, 41 to 45 and 49 to 53 passengers. Minibuses,
which commonly seat 10 to 25 persons, are not a standard product and a wide
variety, commonly based on truck or mobile home undercarriages, are in use. European high-capacity vehicles, for example the
London double decker and various articulated designs, with up to 130 spaces,
are gaining increasing attention in the United States.
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