A metropolis map of bus and practice stations
A couple of individuals lately requested me if there was a pleasant means of displaying the distribution of bus stops throughout London. Having some statistical data is good, however seeing a picture is even nicer.
I took a knowledge pattern from Overpass-Turbo of bus stops and practice (or Undeground) stations. That is simply achievable with the next two queries:
node["highway"="bus_stop"]({{bbox}});
node["railway"="station"]({{bbox}});
Exhibiting simply this information by itself provides fairly a pleasant map:
London’s bus stops and practice stations. Black dots are bus stops and pink circles are practice stations.
The form of primary roads could be simply made out by the association of the bus stops. It is also noticeable that lots of the practice stations observe roads simply because the bus stops do. When each trains and buses observe a highway, the buses have way more frequent stops. Londoners will know effectively that when a practice line has a deliberate suspension, it’s often changed with a ‘Rail alternative bus service’ which might take an virtually an identical route after which often does not cease in any respect the bus stops a traditional bus would have. Those that know London effectively will be capable of spot the hole the place the Thames goes by way of town.
For comparability, here is a map on the identical scale of Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud. There isn’t a sturdy metro system, and trains are principally used to journey to different cities. Buses observe roads, however they’re solely comparably dense to London’s bus networks very close to the centre. Within the suburbs, personal automobiles dominate.
Bus stops and practice stations in Cheltenham and Gloucester. Black dots are bus stops and pink circles are practice stations.
Liverpool’s coast may be very clear, with barely extra utilization of rail:
Liverpool
Manchester has a formidable community of bus stops, and the Manchester Ship Canal which divides Salford and Trafford is simple to identify. The rail community is appreciable, however nonetheless incomparable to that of London.
Manchester
Wolverhampton and Birmingham look virtually like a cell within the strategy of cell division. The bus and rail stops densities appear pretty just like Manchester, regardless of containing virtually double the inhabitants.
Wolverhampton and Birmingham
London’s density of practice stations is probably probably the most spectacular distinction to another metropolis within the UK. Common stops will after all imply that journey time shall be misplaced, however the comfort shall be considerably higher, with common distance to a practice station all the time pretty low.
Knowledge from OpenStreetMap, out there beneath the Open Database License.
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