[Feature Request] A new vehicle added on a line should pick up waiting passengers

[unmerged(326844)]

Example: Lets say I have 4 bus stations on an existing line. If a buy a new bus and add it to the line, it will always start from Stop 1. Also, when it starts from Stop 1, it will never pick up the passengers already waiting on Stop 1 and just move to stop 2.

Therefore, 2 requests:

1) When a bus starts from Stop 1, give it the ability to pick up the waiting passengers on Stop 1 and then move on.

2) For future, it would be nice if we could choose the station from which vehicles start to sort of sync them. Some sort of sync feature.

 

[Philemon1976]

1) is a real pain! I even tend to build a stop "zero" to get Stop 1 (particularly if its a jconnecting station for two lines!) serviced - often in areas, who normally won't deserve a metro station... but it "works" ^^
would be better if the vehicle starts and collected at Stop 1...

 

[Barkydog]

I think it would be a great idea when you add a new bus to a line that it picks up anyone waiting at the first stop on the route if that's possible to do?

My own map I'm running at the moment last night I had a huge crowd waiting for both routes 1 and 2 from my central bus station to go out to a large housing estate since routes 1 and 2 run a frequent clockwise and anti clockwise service round the estate I wanted to clear the crowds but had to wait for new buses I added to both routes to leave the bus station empty and do the loop and only start clearing the waiting passengers on their return to the bus station.

Although on my map I do blame the waiting passengers partly if they saw the buses were running late as they could have easily got on the Metro out to the housing estate or even take one of my tram lines and get a local bus at the other end.

If it's possible to let buses pick up from the start of their route that would be helpful or another idea could be the ability to deploy buses to start at any stop you need them to so if I have a large crowd at a train station or stadium it would be helpful to deploy new buses from the depot to start at the nearest appropriate stop that would be helpful if that's possible?

 

[unmerged(273319)]

The way I solve this problem is place the starting point of the route on the last stop before the first stop. So that way, when the vehicle is spawned, it bypasses the last stop (usually not going to be the fullest one due to being close to end), and goes the first stop on the line and picks up people there.

 

[bbm54]

Good thing, that someone thought on this bug, I already forgot.

Nevertheless, I agree with the others, but mention, that this is a bug, which should be removed by a future patch...