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Re: My Buses keep getting clogged !!!

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From: Elmo Allén
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 00:00
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Mantra wrote: <37b8a02b@grissom>...
>Hi,
>
>What Stephen said :) Also, I realise that once your towns start getting
>bigger, your bus stations tend to get a ridiculous amount of passengers.
>Things like 1500 passengers waiting are not uncommon. I have also found
that
>although this should really annoy the populace, it doesn't seem to bother
>them at all. As long as the buses are constant, they are quite happy. I
>remember when I first started playing, I would look through my stations and
>see thousands of passengers waiting at a bus stop and send buses to it like
>a mad thing... Until they clogged up of course :)

About the stations tending to have few thousand people waiting: I usually
place one bus station in the middle of the town and some to the outskirts.
And then 2-3 buses driving lines, usually all visiting the central station
at some point. Then I "ride" with the combination railway station - lorry
station (or whatever the name was) by clearing some road out of the way and
then place a railway station, place a lorry station, demolish the railway
station, place another further up the way and then demolish the lorry
station and so on. Then I have a railway station gathering all the
passengers from the downtown but not taking the area of all the town. The
buses make the town grow very rapidly while the trains can handle very large
passenger quantities. Because I play original TT, I can't think about any
larger bus quantities than 3 per town (I heard the vehicle limits are much
more higher in TTDx than in TT original, am I right?).

Elmo All�n
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Date: 1999/08/17
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