Recently I had the thought, what is the shortest distance between 2 different bus stops? (ie: you can get on at one and get off at the next, meaning interchanges don't count)
The shortest gap between 2 different bus stops I could find was the gap between Horse Park Dr after Overall Ave, and Horse Park Dr 2nd after Newlop St, with a gap between stops of roughly 190 meters. Does anyone know if there are 2 separate stops which are closer in distance than the stops on Horse Park Dr?
I like the question!
I can think of four, all approx. 90-100 metres apart:
Route 66 towards Woden: Harold White before Cotter (2842) to Cotter after Harold White (2812)
Route 79 towards Tuggeranong: Duggan after Beckett (1028) to Duggan before Pennington (1668)
Route 63 towards Woden: Fremantle after Streeton (1250) to Fremantle after McKail (0201)
Route 63 towards Woden: Yambina before Wirangu (2419) to Yambina after Wirangu (2292)
I'm surprised at just how close some of these bus stops are to each other. There are a fair few on the 63, while looking at the ones you found I found another one.
Route 63 towards Woden: Fremantle before Bunbury to Fremantle after Bunbury (83m distance between stops)
I know of quite a few, can't remember all of them however. Scrolling through anytrip I can spot a few though.
(Distances calculated by google maps) There's a bunch around the 110-200m mark, but I'll leave those for others to catch haha!
- Soward Way split by Scollay Street (160m) - various Tuggeranong routes
- The Round-about on MacFarlane Burnet Ave (160m) - route 44
- Shakespeare Cresc from the terminus to the next stop eastbound (100m) - route 41
- Archibald St (130m) - route 51
- Mt Stromlo High to #2496 twice a day (58m~) - route 63
- Boddington Cresc before Barritt St (75m) - route 70 northbound
- Beasley St after Torrens PS (110m) - route 62 on return trip
- Caley Cr to Goyder St (100m) - route 56 to Fyshwick
- Holy Spirit PS (62m) - route 24
- *St Francis Xavier College stops #2564 to #2555 (70m~) - route 46
These are just of routes active today, I'm sure there's plenty for past routes if I tried looking a little harder.
* According to Anytrip it says it's suppose to stop at both, but I doubt any driver would bother doing that.
Sure, not technically part of Canberra, but your rules only exclude interchanges :P (not like they would count anyway lol) and this route does actually travel to Canberra. After creating all those ridiculous timetables using CDC Canberra routes, I had noticed quite a number of odd distances between stops.
- Ashby Dr & McCusker Dr, Bungendore (85m) - route 844X
Quote from: L94UBbusfan on February 19, 2025, 08:44:44 PMRoute 63 towards Woden: Fremantle before Bunbury to Fremantle after Bunbury (83m distance between stops)
I can't remember where this came from, but someone once said that bus stops shouldn't be so close that you can throw a frisbee between them.
No one's mentioned Forde Shops (while not close, they are by the standards of Forde).
There's also Unaipon Ave in Ngunnawal where a school only stop became a regular stop.
The listing of closely spaced stops reminds me of a consequence of closely spaced stops. Audio of the next stop tended to occur as the stop was being passed or even after the stop. I doubt that when audio returns that this situation will improve much.