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About 95% of the buses come from Espoo and go to the same major bus station just a couple of stops further on. If people happen to be going there, it doesn't matter which one they get. But they nearly all have to stop because this is the first stop inside Helsinki, and there's always *someone* who wants to get off.
Of the remaining 5%, one has already been re-routed onto an adjacent road, which means that the day and night routings are now consistent. But the road layout is awkward enough that there isn't a very convenient place to put an extra stop for the others.
On the other hand, not many people need to get on those buses at that point. There's a Metro station on the other road which goes to the two major places those buses go to (the main bus station and the main railway station), for the same price and transfer flexibility, more frequently to the railway station, and more comfortably.
On the gripping hand, the corresponding stop on the opposite side of the road is just as much of a clusterfark. They've already separated the non-Espoo buses to a stop after the junction with the motorway (the Espoo buses join the motorway), but there is only one stop for all the Espoo buses, which go to nearly all parts of that great and evenly-populated municipality.
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Quoth Chromatix View PostOn the gripping hand, ..."I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."
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Quoth Ironclad Alibi View PostDo I detect a Niven/Pournelle fan here?
Carry on.
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
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If not for the bus driver's frantic gestures warning me of a speeding vehicle I would have been plastered on the front of a B-Clean van.
one of the guys on my ship was using the crosswalk. There were two incoming lanes of traffic, one car stopped for him but another car didn't. compound fracture in each leg. they had to pull him off the ship cos he was going to take at least 6 months for him to heal from the damage.
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Quoth Department stores *sigh* View PostHad the opposite happen to me once at a crosswalk. Since a bus stopped for me at the crosswalk the driver in the left lane decided the bus was at a bus stop. If not for the bus driver's frantic gestures warning me of a speeding vehicle I would have been plastered on the front of a B-Clean van.
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Quoth canada bruno View PostYou might think I'm being an a$$ for not stopping at the cross walk, but it's all in the name of safety."Enough expository banter. It's time we fight like men. And ladies. And ladies who dress like men. For Gilgamesh...IT'S MORPHING TIME!"
- Gilgamesh, Final Fantasy V
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Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
Of course, I also once saw a bus driver get his ass chewed out by a Metro Transit guy for showing up at the transit center, opening his door for about 5 seconds, then closing it and leaving, with a dozen people who had already been waiting for him at the stop.
pwnedIf you wish to find meaning, listen to the music not the song
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