Termainating bus or hold bus halfway to alleviate bunging, better let bus run non stop instead? (London Buses)

[hkstudent]

It's always kind of irritating to board on London Buses that need to terminate halfway as running over time or second+ buses bunged need to on hold to space out time despite all buses are running late by 10+ minutes (and with the interval to the previous bus poleton be 15+ minutes apart on a 6-10bph route, e.g. bus 96 in Bexley Borough to Woolwich).

I am thinking why don't London Bus planning team ever think of making the bus already bunged to run as not picking up pax (as bus full), run express to call a major stations only (even better with a dedicated X route number for better understanding), or at least to run as a skip stop approach (1st bus call at odd number stop, 2nd bus call at even number stop)

 

[Titfield]

Because if you have passengers already on the bus, they are entitled to get off at any stop on line of route. You cant miss stops and call out "you will have to wait for the next stop".

 

[GusB]

We have an existing thread on the subject here:

Effective methods of reducing bus bunching on high-frequency routes

One of the biggest challenges in planning and operating a high-frequency route is preventing buses bunching, or in other words getting too close to one another. It’s a common occurrence, most often caused by one of the buses running late, which means it picks up more passengers than intended as...

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