12-08-2018, 03:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-09-2018, 10:21 AM by Pheidippides.
Edit Reason: Removed inappropriate personal attack and fixed math error.
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(12-08-2018, 09:46 AM)Canard Wrote: ...
I checked the schedule before I left, and it said it was 10 minute service, which I thought was reasonable. I ended up waiting about 25 minutes. How common is that? Two 200's came one right behind the other.
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Service has been more reliable as of late, but it is still not an uncommon experience at all. I've mostly had problems with schedule adherence or cancelled runs on the 8 recently.
Service reliability, when a GRT bus departs a scheduled time point no more than 3 minutes late, was 76.1% in October. Note that it refers to designated time points, not all stops. So if a bus misses scheduled times at the intermediate stops between time points, but makes up the time before the next time point, it would still be considered on time. This happens on the 8 all the time. It can be 7-8min late leaving a stop and still get to Charles at its designated time.
Also, service delivery, measured by the percentage of scheduled service hours that are operated, was 99.91% in October 2018. While that seems high consider that GRT offers about 68,000 hours of service in a month. So even not delivering 0.09% is 61.2 hours of service were lost. "Missed service can occur due to traffic, weather, mechanical breakdowns, collisions and the lack of resources assigned to a route."
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.