Do crosswalks matter?

[City Builder]

Hi,

I'm wondering if crosswalks matter when placing bus stops?

What I mean is if I have a 4 lane road with a factory on one side with a bus stop, and I have another stop right across the street but there is no crosswalk for the people to cross over the street to get to the leaving stop, will the people just jay walk across the street or will they just not use the stop that takes them away?

Or maybe they'll get on where the stop is that drops them off at the end of their shift and take the long way home with the bus taking them the opposite direction of their house for a ways until it turns around and heads back the other way?

 

[unmerged(266800)]

They do matter. CiMfolk will jaywalk (I'm not sure that term has any meaning in European cities where there's no law against it!), but they'll have to wait for gaps in the traffic. If there's a crosswalk, they can cross more easily and more quickly.

It's good for CiMfolk to get to their destination as quickly as possible. They pick a destination, and when they get there, they stay for a certain number of seconds (I think it's somewhere between 300-500 seconds - five to eight minutes, approx) then leave for a new destination. The sooner you can get a CiMfolk to his/her destination, the sooner it will be that they'll decide to leave, pay money for another ticket, and go somewhere else. If they're spending five minutes waiting to cross the road, they'll be making journeys less often and you'll be making less money.

 

[unmerged(224028)]

Yeah also when you build interconnections people will go from one stop to another on foot.

I once made the mistake of placing a two bus stops on either side of a street, but in the middle of a very big block. People had to walk all the way to the next cross road to cross and the back to change lines.

 

[Cargo Cult]

They do matter. CiMfolk will jaywalk (I'm not sure that term has any meaning in European cities where there's no law against it!), but they'll have to wait for gaps in the traffic. If there's a crosswalk, they can cross more easily and more quickly.

Just for the record: Jaywalking is illegal at least in Germany
In my experience the Cimfolk will use a crosswalk if it is within reasonable distance, if not, they jaywalk. That's why I bulid most Subway interchanges on a single plaza, because otherwise, the pedestrians would block traffic.

 

[GamingFather]

They do matter. CiMfolk will jaywalk (I'm not sure that term has any meaning in European cities where there's no law against it!), but they'll have to wait for gaps in the traffic. If there's a crosswalk, they can cross more easily and more quickly.

It's good for CiMfolk to get to their destination as quickly as possible. They pick a destination, and when they get there, they stay for a certain number of seconds (I think it's somewhere between 300-500 seconds - five to eight minutes, approx) then leave for a new destination. The sooner you can get a CiMfolk to his/her destination, the sooner it will be that they'll decide to leave, pay money for another ticket, and go somewhere else. If they're spending five minutes waiting to cross the road, they'll be making journeys less often and you'll be making less money.

Ofcourse if you have congestion, it might not be bad if they are a bit slower to travel again

 

[Kilonum]

Just for the record: Jaywalking is illegal at least in Germany

It is here in Massachusetts, though the fine is $1 for each of the first 2 offences, $3 for each subsequent offence. Needless to say, there's zero enforcement.

I try to place my stops as close to street corners as is feasibly possible.

 

[unmerged(243048)]

Jaywalking is only illeagal in Germany if there is a crosswalk or a traffic light close by. If there's none, you can legally jaywalk.

 

[unmerged(273101)]

ahhh,, thats why everybody was waiting for the traffic light to turn green even though i didn't see a car coming
lucky me that there wasn't any police atm
(in Munchen @ Germany)

In Holland they just warn you as far as i know (if offcourse they see it)