How do I use the Minibus?

[SievertChaser]

A bit of a misleading title, but I've never seen an underused bus line. If anything, the cims enthusiastically take every opportunity to skip leg day, and it's the high-capacity gusses that are sorely needed. So what you end up looking is car trips saved, not the raw number of people transported.

This is mostky a continuation of my previous thread complaining about bus line design. It's just that I've bought the DLC.

[OneJasonBradly]

I personally like and enjoy busses, but you are correct to run a city with those small 30-50 passenger busses, it's a hard run for sure. I do use a combination of regular and high volume busses on the same line. I use double Decker (110 passengers) workshop busses to help move the volume. I also set a bus sequence for a given line.

Naturally some lines end up with one stop that is crazy with passengers. Those "stops" might benefit from a express bus or two to grab all the passengers going to the same popular stop along that line. So the express busses only goes to one other stop and the stop it starts from.
I don't judge by "how many car trips saved" I judge by how many waiting at stops and how long an overflow of passengers lasts.

[CyberVibes]

I use the mini buses for running workers back and fore my farms. There's not huge numbers and if i keep the routes short with say 4 or 5 stops it even makes money.

[OneJasonBradly]

Originally posted by CyberVibes:

I use the mini buses for running workers back and fore my farms. There's not huge numbers and if i keep the routes short with say 4 or 5 stops it even makes money.

Nice!!!

[Tsubame ⭐]

I have plenty of bus lines running with only 5-10 people, sometimes less.

Vanilla and modded.

Sometimes due to serving very low density areas, sometimes in very large cities but with many other transit options nearby, and so on.

[CyberVibes]

Where my buses go there isn't another form of public transport nearby. The minibuses do the route of the farms and finally stop of the railway station. Seems to work fine on that basis.

[Clunk]

My latest city of 50k and growing has zero public transport with no plans to create any. No buses, trains, metro, shipping at all. None. Every movement is made using shanky's pony (on foot) or the roadways.

I find public transport more a hindrance than a help as it just acts as a crowd creator and causes worse jams on foot, rail or road than anything else. It quickly becomes a nuisance.

I might make a railway line from time to time just because I like watching them, not because I need one, as I know it'll get overcrowded quickly yet the change to traffic will remain negligible.