This is constantly one of the philosophical differences among various transit planners. The two sides of the argument as I understand them are do you make a transit route as direct as possible, so that people can travel as quickly as possible between points, or do you build routes such as the one you suggest such that it serves as many reasonably transit-supportive places as possible between the endpoints?
DDOT routes have always been a combination of the two; SMART bus routes are mostly direct. Of course, any single route can't serve both purposes; if we had sufficient funds for a really robust system you could have different routes partly along the same corridor to handle the two different philosophies.
Thanks for posting!
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