On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:07 AM, Jo <winfi...@gmail.com> wrote: The odd thing about this route is that it serves 1 stop at the start of > this cul-de-sac then continues and turns around. There is no other stop at > the end, where it makes the maneuver. >
A few things. 1) Once the bus gets to that stop it is then dead-ended. It has to perform this manoeuvre somewhere on the housing estate where that stop is. The only way to avoid a reverse-turn would be to remove that stop from the route, thereby removing that housing estate from the route. 2) Although there are no other marked stops on that housing estate, it's effectively (and possibly officially) a hail-and-ride route by that point. I have seen passengers alight between the marked stop and the turning point. Those passengers had mobility issues but I'm pretty sure passengers without mobility issues would have been allowed to alight in those places. 3) The whole housing estate is dominated by the retired. The marked stop is by a medium-size housing complex with a warden. Other, semi-detached, houses on the housing estate tend to have retirees in them. So, in this case, the route wasn't designed for the benefit of a hot-shot on the council or for a single person with COPD (as others have suggested) but for the benefit of a large number of people. But if we're going to a add a role for hail_and_ride and editors need to be > adapted to accomodate this, we could include this role as well, while we're > at it. > In iD it's possible to add tags the editor doesn't (yet) know about. I don't know about any of the other editors. The question is does this tag serve a useful purpose? For routers, it appears not. For data consumers looking at a map then perhaps. Without it the route would just appear to dead-end. Does it go out of service there to turn around and passengers must therefore alight? Is the route incomplete? For mappers it explains what's happening so they don't try to "fix" something that isn't broken (mappers should read notes but don't always do so). As somebody pointed out, routers would be just as happy without the reverse role and consumers would see no difference (as long as the reversing stub is included in the route, with or without a role). It's just a little less clear to mappers what is going on without that role. -- Paul
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