On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 23:56, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am honestly confused by the discussions about types and features of > buses. > Join the club. :) Are these relevant in the mapping context? > Yes. That's how this whole thread started. Somebody wanting to map places where coaches stop to let people on and off. Which are sometimes for coaches alone but some may be shared with buses. > Are there any road regulations referring specifically to coaches? > I have no idea. It would be a long search to find out, and if you found nothing you still couldn't be sure you hadn't missed something. Because there are for buses. Not just buses in public service, but buses > intended as a kind of vehicle (in all places I know, this includes coaches > and small buses with more than 9 seats). > Even though there may be no generic legislation there may be specific signage. Access for buses only would (I surmise) exclude coaches because the buses are permitted in order to allow passengers to board/alight along that bit of highway whereas coaches would be using it merely as a short-cut from A to B. Pedestrianized inner cities areas may allow buses along some roads that all other traffic is excluded from (except for delivery vehicles outside shopping hours). I have seen video of a rising bollard that dropped to allow a bus through and then rose to block the car following the bus: presumably a coach would also be blocked because it wouldn't broadcast a valid ID. See https://youtu.be/4wT7zM8XgXQ?t=189 We do need to keep coaches and buses separate. And realize that coaches (whether chartered, for holidays or for day trips) are not the same thing as tourist/tour buses (which are probably in yet another category for stops and road access). Oh, and please forget that motorbus ever existed. Motorcycle is in common use (more usually motorbike) to distinguish it from an ordinary bicycle. Motorcar is quaint and old-fashioned and people would wonder why you said motorcar rather than just car but would know what you meant. Motorbus is so antiquated that people would wonder what you were talking about and ask if you meant a bus. -- Paul
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