zedprime posted:

People don't leave home with a destination in mind, only a goal: go to work, go to need meeting activities, go to school. They'll either walk to one of these things in range if they meet the need, or else go to a random bus stop serving their home. While waiting at the bus stop, they check if the bus 1. allows someone with their goal to get on and 2. if the bus actually serves the goal somewhere down route. They don't check the bus stop so your glorious worker stop will fill up with grocery shoppers who will never find their grocery shopping bus if you don't forbid leisure users from the stop itself.

Much of your goal as a new player is to learn how to start tailoring your routes to this goal orientation instead of destination orientation. Workers are a resource you convey to places they need with an exact supply chain, not a murky web of public transport you might be familiar with from something like Cities Skylines. Forbid certain goals on the routes and the stations, make sure their path isn't more complicated than maybe one route change (likely due to transportation mode change), use the tools to assign specific bus stations to specific homes or businesses etc. Above all change gears to see them as specific people shuttles with specific goals which behave to your specification.