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<blockquote data-quote="Maui" data-source="post: 4893733" data-attributes="member: 45037">This is somewhat true. Everyone knows that stand-alones in one part of the service area are meaningless for help 45+ minutes away. However, when there are hundreds of stand-alones there shouldn’t be lates anywhere.They just show excess capacity and a bad route structure. You can absolutely design efficient routes if you get on-road early that make service and do SA. But some will see that as excess capacity. Did that station really need al those routes or all those rentals when they did 500 SA stops BEFORE 1030? Why are these routes finishing business PO before 1015?Couldn’t they cut routes with better balancing? Not only are there SA, but resi heavy routes doing 1200 commits before 1030 also. I honestly don’t think there would be much noise if a largish station had &lt;25 lates and SA, but if you’re being asked to run service and avoid SA I’d keep in mind the local goal might be to protect staffing and keep all the rentals so that when they ask for additional resources they have credibility.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Maui, post: 4893733, member: 45037"] This is somewhat true. Everyone knows that stand-alones in one part of the service area are meaningless for help 45+ minutes away. However, when there are hundreds of stand-alones there shouldn’t be lates anywhere. They just show excess capacity and a bad route structure. You can absolutely design efficient routes if you get on-road early that make service and do SA. But some will see that as excess capacity. Did that station really need al those routes or all those rentals when they did 500 SA stops BEFORE 1030? Why are these routes finishing business PO before 1015? Couldn’t they cut routes with better balancing? Not only are there SA, but resi heavy routes doing 1200 commits before 1030 also. I honestly don’t think there would be much noise if a largish station had <25 lates and SA, but if you’re being asked to run service and avoid SA I’d keep in mind the local goal might be to protect staffing and keep all the rentals so that when they ask for additional resources they have credibility. [/QUOTE]

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