To clarify, my suggestion is to run reverse commuter service. Nonstop express service from a location the urban part of the city. But when it gets to the burbs, it meanders around to hit important job and services points of interest.
This is the opposite of a typical suburban bus line that tries (and usually fails) to be a “collector” route in low density residential areas to bring those nonexistent riders to old fashioned 9 to 5 downtown jobs.
I want to get urban residents who are more likely to use transit to work and shopping and the doctor out in the suburbs because our cities have decentralized so much and that stuff isn’t downtown and isn’t coming back.
I made some horrible MS Paint drawings to illustrate my point:
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