Riding the 512 today this thread popped into my mind and in retrospect, the TTC perhaps should have kept Wychwood and eliminated Vaughan instead.
That makes a lot of sense, really. Northcliffe was the other obvious stop that should have got the axe.
Well I think the benchmark needs to be the subway downtown along Bloor and Danforth and Y-U-S line south of Bloor. Most places in the city are less dense yet bus stops and streetcar stops are placed closer together.
For a bus, it should be 1 station = 2-2.5 stops between subway station spacing here. Thinking about the original 1954 Yonge subway, if it were a bus route, I'd want to see additional stops at Gould, Gerrard, Alexander, Isabella, Church/Davenport, Roxborough, Balmoral, Lawton/Glen Elm, Merton, Manor.
If it were Bloor from Yonge, going west:
- Yonge
- Bay
- Avenue
- Bedford
- Between St. George and Huron
- Spadina
- Brunswick
- Bathurst
- Euclid
- Christie/Grace
- Crawford
- Ossington
- Dovercourt
- Havelock
- Dufferin
- Brock
- Lansdowne
- Symington
- Dundas
5.6 kilometres, or 17 stops between Yonge and Dundas, or about a stop every 340 metres. This seemed too low, but the Queen Car has 25 stops in the same stretch, or every 220 metres. Streetcars in a ROW should be about every 400-500 metres, IMHO. Every 300-350 metres feels to me about right for a local bus route, and shouldn't be any closer than that in most circumstances. Spadina between Queen's Quay and Bloor has stops every 260 metres, on the low side for even what a bus route should be.
As for useless stops city-wide:
110 has like five non-intersection stops south of the Queensway.
Ditto for the 47's Bridgeland section.
84 has a stop at the base of the West Don Bridge (east of Canyon)
116 has a stop in Morningside Park.
Can anyone think of some others?
47 on Bridgeland is a great example - there should be no more than 2 stops between Caledonia and Dufferin. A lot of long stretches of suburban road without intersections seem to have really closely spaced stops.