{"id":7727,"date":"2010-07-29T04:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:32:14","slug":"photo-du-jour-good-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2010\/07\/29\/photo-du-jour-good-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du jour : Good question&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4100\/4828436397_acb19549c3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"264\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scrawled on an STM info panel at the Pierrefonds\/Roxboro train station:<em> &#8220;Does anyone take this bus?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a similar topic, Jason Prince ponders how bus transit could be <a href=\"http:\/\/turcot.ca\/2010\/07\/27\/a-turcot-solution-bus-rapid-transit-a-253m-solution\/\">tweaked to win over West island commuters<\/a>. But the comments point out the obvious difficulties with transit in low-density suburbs: people have complex trips (dropping off the kids; picking up groceries after work, etc), an increasing number of suburb-to-suburb commutes makes it near impossible to create direct routes, and it often requires a car to get to the transit terminus in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder this West Island bus stop looks a little forlorn.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtresy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kellergraham\/\">Kellergraham.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrawled on an STM info panel at the Pierrefonds\/Roxboro train station: &#8220;Does anyone take this bus?&#8221; On a similar topic, Jason Prince ponders how bus transit could be tweaked to win over West island commuters. 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