3/15/2023 0 Comments Mini metro browser![]() Metro has 25 $500 mini-grants to hand out to public K-12 schools in the Portland area to implement a Safe Routes Back to School strategy this year. The wheels of the bike bus are going ’round and ’round and won’t be stopping anytime soon, so hop on! Read up on Sam’s bike bus tips and be sure to hit the links at the end of his post. And did you hear over 300 families turned out for the Parkrose Pedal last Saturday?! Here in Portland, bike buses are spreading far beyond the Alameda neighborhood: Shawne Martinez celebrated the Walk and Roll day early with a bike bus at his daughter’s school this past Wednesday, and Alida Cantor has also hopped on the bike bus by organizing a program in the Sunnyside neighborhood. Portland’s own Sam Balto has invigorated international excitement with his bike bus videos, which are racking up millions of views on TikTok and inspiring people across the country to create similar programs at their school. So is your school ready to celebrate next week? Here are some tips for people who want to participate. But I suspect this year’s observance – set for this coming Wednesday, October 12th – will be even bigger than usual.Īfter more than two years of Zoom school cooping kids up inside, there’s a groundswell of enthusiasm for using active transportation to get kids to school. International Walk + Roll to School Day has been celebrated in dozens of countries around the world since 1997, and Portland has excitedly participated for years. It helps in the game because it adds diversity into a line – same in real life.Parkrose Pedal organizer Nichole Watson (middle) and other organizers at Saturday’s event. In real life, this happens – rail transport in particular often prompts development in the area immediately surrounding the station. Part of the game has stations changing shape, such as from a common-or-garden circle to one of the rarer shapes. If you want to see this in Melbourne, check the Federation Square tram stop in peak hour. But if something goes wrong, then queues of interchanging passengers can grow, overcrowding stations. If you can’t efficiently provide passengers with a one seat ride, then separate lines serving different destinations can help. Interchanges are useful, but challenging. You see this on Melbourne’s tram system – the CBD is very busy (in part due to the Free Tram Zone), but the suburban ends are relatively quiet (for the capacity provided), in part because many of them terminate in the middle of nowhere rather than making a logical connection to a railway station or other traffic generator. Lines with very busy and very quiet sections are difficult to manage. Sometimes the simulated passengers take unexpected routes to their destinations. This is also true in real life – Melbourne’s CBD dominates train travel demand, but lines that serve intermediate destinations (for example Caulfield or Glenferrie which have university campuses, or Southland with its shopping centre) can mean some seats on the trains serve multiple passengers during one trip, making the system more efficient. This increases the chances of using your train capacity efficiently. ![]() It means trains quickly become crowded in those sections.Ī winning strategy in the game is to try and build your lines to have a mix of the station shapes – avoid the same shape multiple times in a row. This is analogous to lots of commuter stations which are a source of passengers, but rarely a destination. ![]() The game creates different shapes, and may force you to have sections of line with the same shapes. This causes problems in the game too.ĭiversity of destinations is good. In the real world it’s important to maintain even frequencies, and not let services bunch. If trains come through frequently, they’re not waiting for long, so crowds don’t grow too large.īunching is bad. In the game, passengers may have to change from line to line to reach their destination. I was pondering what the game can teach us about real life public transport.įrequency is good. ![]()
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