Attualmente sono a Walsrode, cercando di arrivare a Weltvogelpark Walsrode, The Bird Park. Ho navigato qui con Google Maps e l’autobus risulta essere un minivan? È comune per le aree rurali in cui non è necessaria la capacità?
Un’altra domanda è che ho visto un autobus che avrebbe dovuto partire alle 09:51, ma sono rimasto alla fermata dell’autobus Bahnhof fino alle 10:00 prima di partire. L’autobus era completamente vuoto (ho potuto prenderlo anch’io, ma visto che era vuoto ho pensato che qualcosa non fosse stato spento e no) l’autobus era in attesa dei passeggeri?
Grazie per qualsiasi risposta!
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di WangYat2007
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You know, you can always just ask the bus driver
These buses are basically “on call”, they have a few stations they drive to or start off from, but can be requested by app to stop at other points to pick you up or let you off. So their schedule is more of a suggestion and not set in stone. And yes, this is meant to be more flexible for rural regions where the large capacity busses are only needed during school hours.
BTW Walsrode isn’t far from where I live. The Vogelpark is nice. Enjoy!
Welcome to rural parts:-) In my village (lowersaxony), there are phonenumbers in the Busstops. You need to call a central, and inform them that you are there and want to take the Bus line to xyz. Then the Bus will come and stop.
If you dont call, they will not stop, and if nobody calls for the whole bus line, the bus will not even start.
Yes it is. Often there are Rufbusse which you have to call an hour in advance. Otherwise they won’t come. Drivers on these small rural roads also don’t really need to be that punctual either. Often they run the same line back and forth every other hour with no other lines to connect to and long waiting times on their schedule.
> is this common for rural areas where capacity isn’t needed?
Yes, minivans are not uncommon in rural areas, I used one regularly commuting to work. Sometimes it’s hard to identify them.
> but stayed at the bahnhof bus stop until 10:00 before leaving.
Sometimes buses and trains have some kind of gentlemen’s agreement on waiting for each other. For example, if the bus regularly departs at 09:51, but the driver knows that a regional train arrives at 09:52, they might wait a few minutes to see if there are passengers for the bus. That’s more common in rural areas where passengers would need to wait a long time for the next connection.
When in doubt: Feel free to ask the driver. Sometimes they are unnecessarily grumpy (sometimes I wonder if this is a requirement for being hired as a bus driver), but often they are quite helpful.
I live in a bigger city and yet we have those small buses in residential areas. Those opeate like normal buses on a fixed schedule.
If it was waiting, I guess there is another connection that is timed with the one of that bus. If that one is delayed, maybe there was an order to wait for it.
Some years ago I had to call a number for a bus stop in the weekend in a village. It was a normal taxi that take you the bus station you required. He only asked me for a valid public transport ticket and told me that that the local government pays the fare.
At the back in other station the minibus was full and one passenger voluntarily left because a relative will pick up her…