One problem I had when living in the UK was deciding which station to use to travel up to London. Mother who worked as a midwife had been told one station by the nurses at the hospital. Fine except it was a 20 minute drive to get there and the fairly high frequency but stopping tube would get you into the city fairly quickly. Later I used the station that was ten minutes walk away. That saved the 20 minute drive and has fewer stops at stations. Years later I found another station 15 minutes walk away that ran into Liverpool street with only one stop. Much the fastest but I'd been living there more than ten years before I uncovered it. There was another line I used occasionally that ran into Kings Cross and occasionally that would best depending on where you were going to.
So it is a mixture sometimes of which station to use and how that gets you to your destination. Don't get me started on tickets and which to use. The route planners make it much easier than obtaining the old paper timetables and pouring through them. Does all this complexity belong in OSM? Probably not our strength I think is in the mapping of stations etc and let someone else sort the rest out. Cheerio John On Tue, Jun 1, 2021, 11:29 Dave F via Talk-transit < talk-transit@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > What's wrong with consulting a timetable? > > Maps show you where you can go, timetables tell you when . > > DaveF > > On 01/06/2021 01:18, Michael Tsang wrote: > > > I think you are missing the point that GB is not a city. > > > Cities are densly pack and urban transport systems reflect this. In > London tube trains simply stop at every station. > > > This structure will not work when it comes to rural stations, and what > we have works very well. It would not be efficient to stop every trains > at stations which only have a few dozen passengers in a day. > > Other European countries are doing it much better. The routes are > numbered. There are designated express services with stops only in big > cities. The rural stations have only local stopping services which call at > every stop en-route. > > We don't even have a useful route map from train companies that can work > out which train I should take without consulting the timetable. > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing > listTalk-transit@openstreetmap.orghttps://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-transit mailing list > Talk-transit@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit >
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