• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    There are some stops where the bus always stops, and others where you have to signal the driver to stop (known as request stops). You will typically find the first kind in high density areas like cities, and the other in suburbs or in the countryside (there are even “stop areas” in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked).

    The same applies to trains too, although request stops are not as common as they are for buses (and I don’t know of any stop areas for trains)

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
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      4 days ago

      there are even “stop areas” in some very rural places, where the driver officially must stop anywhere along it when asked

      In my city late night buses do this anyway, even in areas where the daytime route uses mostly request stops.