ksun
Senior Member
I know lots of people who, if the weather is shite, won't walk more than 2 or 3 minutes from their vehicle or a shelter, so yeah, that would prevent them from making their trip if it is a discretionary trip.
There are certainly those people but the number will be small. (I won't go to the Kensington market because the closest transit stop is 220 meters away!) don't forget those people will need to walk to their stop, climb stairs in subway stations, and will definitely have to walk in Kensington market once they arrive. That's a lot more than 200 meters!
Conversely, I could argue that your theory would hold that every route would need but two stops - 1 at either end, and everyone would have to get to those two points. But that doesn't work either.
No, there is a degree of reasonableness. By taking transit one would be expect to walk some distance, and the line needs to stop at popular destinations to maximize its coverage. Internationally, most surface transit has spacing of at least 400-500 meters, even in more dense cities.
And following your childish counter argument, I may ask why doesn't the streetcars stop every 50 meters? There will be passengers who need to someone between Nassau and College and choose not to because they need to walk 100 meters?
Besides Toronto, please show me other cities where buses/streetcars have 80-200 meter spacing. Not even in Manhattan or Paris, where density is several times higher. I will be more convinced if you do.