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hooked routes

English translation: linked routes (for commuting)

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English term or phrase:hooked routes
Selected answer:linked routes (for commuting)
Entered by: Carmen Cuervo-Arango

19:19 Jul 31, 2005
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Public transport
English term or phrase: hooked routes
Several hooked routes that duplicated the light rail alignment were separated to provide shuttle service to light rail.

I am translating a text about public transport. After the introduction of a light rail system in a city, part of the transport network has been modified. These "hooked" routes are part of the bus lines, slightly modified so that services would not overlay. I have posted this question in the English > Spanish SC. I have three answers and I still don't know which one to choose because the sense is not clear to me. Could you explain with other words what these "hooked routes" are? Thank you!
Carmen Cuervo-Arango
Spain
Local time: 20:31
linked routes (for commuting)
Explanation:
I am fairly confident that the term 'hooked routes' is not a standard phrase and was made up by the author or perhaps it is a bad translation from another language? From the context I understand it to be routes that are linked.

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Note added at 1 day 1 hr 22 mins (2005-08-01 20:42:31 GMT)
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The very fact that none of the other language professionals have so far ventured an opinion, nor agreed or disagreed with me on this question confirms that the term \'hooked routes\' is not a standard phrase.
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Johan Venter
Czech Republic
Local time: 20:31
Grading comment
Thank you very much for all your explanations! They have been very helpful to me :-)
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3 +2linked routes (for commuting)
Johan Venter


  

Answers


28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
linked routes (for commuting)


Explanation:
I am fairly confident that the term 'hooked routes' is not a standard phrase and was made up by the author or perhaps it is a bad translation from another language? From the context I understand it to be routes that are linked.

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Note added at 1 day 1 hr 22 mins (2005-08-01 20:42:31 GMT)
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The very fact that none of the other language professionals have so far ventured an opinion, nor agreed or disagreed with me on this question confirms that the term \'hooked routes\' is not a standard phrase.

Johan Venter
Czech Republic
Local time: 20:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thank you very much for all your explanations! They have been very helpful to me :-)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Fratus: It is not usual for a bus route to go out (from the station) on one street, and return on another, making a fishhook-shaped route or loop.
1 day 8 hrs
  -> No it's not. Thanks :)
agree  juvera: I think what the writer ment was "rootes hooking onto the railway" somewhere, - going to or stopping at a station, but some of them duplicated at least part of the railway journey, so they rearranged them. Certainly not well written.
1 day 13 hrs
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