02-17-2016, 12:10 PM
(02-17-2016, 12:03 PM)Markster Wrote: Oh man, I wish service was faster this week due to the smaller number of students.
The only difference to my route 200 commute was the number of minutes the bus spent idling at every single stop between downtown and Columbia.
The schedule is padded heavily to account for heavy loads, and it's padded heavily again because of construction detours. When everything is moving smoothly, it just means the bus waits several minutes at every stop anyway.
Yeah, it’s true that it keeps to its schedule anyway. If your stop happens to be one where the driver is planning on waiting three minutes to get back on schedule, you get those three minutes- mine aren’t, either, so I happen to have the same experience of being giddy when the bus can sail past a stop because no one is waiting there, and then wondering when we’ll finally get moving when the driver makes up time at the next.
I question whether a bus with ten-minute frequency should need to do this. But, anyway, you’re almost guaranteed to get a seat on the 200 this week, so it’s a more comfortable ride.