8/8/2019 Why People Do Not Use Public Transport

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Why people do notuse public transport

"can't arrive there on time andin one piece"

TRANSIT JOURNEYS TOOTIRING

Long wait

No fixed schedules (+/- 5 minutes leeway)for transit service which frequency isabove 10 minutes

High capacity transit for low ridershipareas cause lengthy intervals betweentransit stop schedules

Profit-maximizing operators arbitrarily

determine the frequency of service onany given day based on the most numberof passengers that can be fitted instead ofsticking to consistent schedule

Badly designed transit vehicle routes withfrequent, unwanted stops

Majority of commuters in metro vicinitieshas the city center as their targetdestination but nearly all transit routeschoose to ply on overlapping,

time-consuming suburban routes

Innercity transit vehicles share the same

clogged private vehicles' routes in the citycenter

Intercity routes utilize slow, busy,congested and clogged thoroughfareswith too many stops

Local routes to intercity hubs zig-zaggingtoo much and involves too many stops

Local transit vehicles plying a long looproute, inconveniently causing longer

journeys for outgoing commuters whobegin their journey at the start of the loop,and incoming commuters who finalizetheir journey at the far end of the loop:

Worse if the local transit's destinationpoint (where the vehicle goes into idlingmode) is within instead of outside theloop.

Profit-maximizing operator s unexpectedlyskip certain committed stops during lowridership hours

Travel discomfort

Transit vehicles can't get the doors closedand passengers can't enter/exit freely dueto overcrowded gangway and entrances:causing service delays and lengthens

journey period

Transit vehicle built for short distancetravel is wrongfully used for long travel,and vice versa: Affects vehiclemaintenance and passenger comfort

Commuters hate to stand (or even sit)tightly among a pack of crowd during longtravel which involves frequent and sudden

breaks, jerks, twists and turns.

Hard plastic chairs with no head support.Rigid sitting position for a long period oftime is scientifically proven to inducechronic back pain

Side-facing seating position inducesmoment sickness during long journey

Transit vehicles not properly maintainedwith creeping roaches, broken

air-conditioning, loose screws, harshsuspension and engine vibration

"don't know how to get there"TRANSIT ROUTES VERYCOMPLICATED

Transit vehicle routes redundantly overlap each other

Certain thoroughfares are shared by too

many service lines of many differentoperators

International, interstate, interdistrict,intercity and innercity service lines sharedthe same clogged thoroughfares and finaldestination spots

Transit route information not easily available

Transit route information not available inthe transit vehicle itself, let alone indifferent service lines from other

operators.

No comprehensive all-in-one public

transportation map freely available topublic in form of brochures describingindividual routes' information and serviceschedule in simplified maps, and onlineaerial map services (utilizing google

earth) overlapped with starting and endpoints of various service lines, completewith legends indicative of transfer points,halts and non-stop service lines.

Relevant transit route information notavailable in transit halts

Comprehensive transit route informationof different operators is not available in

hubs and stations.

Different transit systems and feestructures prohibit convenientcross-transfers among service lines'commuters and sharing of resources

Targeted transit vehicle hard to be

spotted, identified and singled-out

Commuters have to be over-alert andventure outside of dedicated waiting areain order to not miss out the targetedtransit vehicle

Transit vehicle's route number display isinadequate and hard to be identified from

far, from the side and back, and underafternoon sun or evening darkness.

Vehicles of same service line havestartlingly different outer appearances,sometimes confused with other familiarservice lines

"don't want to bear the hassle"TRANSIT POINTS HIGHLYINACCESSIBLE

Poor pedestrian-friendlyinfrastructure leadingresidents to transit halts

Private-transport driven city planning

Pedestrian paths to transit halts are unsafe

Transit halt located far beyond 10mins ofwalking distance from point of origin

Transit halts not adequately located anddesigned for safe, hassle-free waiting

and embark/disembarking

Distance between halts are inconsistent

with population distribution around halts

Redundant placement of halts

No shelter from shine and rain, notbrightly lit, traffic noise and air pollution(for halts on busy thoroughfares)

Halt on one side of the carriageway is notconveniently connected to the other

Narrow halts can't cater large volume ofwaiting commuters

Short halts can't cater high frequency ofdifferent service lines, where no cleardemarcation of transit queue line is

available

Dedicated halt space filled by idling and parked vehicles

Transit hubs can be easily spotted byhaphazard loitering of transit vehicles

Transit Hubs are inadequate to caterlarge volume of vehicles and passengers

No shelter from shine and rain, not

brightly lit, high noise and air pollution

Parked and idling vehicles createunnecessary congestion especially duringnon-peak hours when service intervalswiden

No dedicated boarding platforms createvehicle queue disorder

Haphazard passenger queue line

No convenient access to Transit Hubs

Hub location is not strategic

Neighboring communities divided bylimited-access Tolled Highways andcongested Freeways, makingLocal-Intercity transit journeys and viceversa unnecessarily complicated

Entry/exit routes to/from Tolled Highways

from/to Transit Hubs are verytime-consuming due to distance andcongestion

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