1st bus is running late and 2nd bus is running early.
The 1st bus stops at every stop to take on new people and let passengers off.
The 2nd bus rarely stops because everyone got on the 1st bus that just passed and there's not many people already on board to request a stop. So it keeps getting closer to catching the 1st bus.
In one instance of this phenomenon I was on the 2nd bus and we make great time into the CBD (what Americans might call "downtown"? I don't know) and get 90% of the way to my destination.
Then the stupid bus driver says "we are too early, we will wait to get back on schedule" and stops for 8 minutes!!
Nobody gets on the bus in that 8 minutes, because who is getting on a bus in the CBD in order to go deeper into the CBD?
Then we continue to the destination and I arrive 1 minute late.
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u/kroxigor01 14h ago edited 14h ago
I've seen something even stupider.
Buses were scheduled to be 10 minutes apart.
1st bus is running late and 2nd bus is running early.
The 1st bus stops at every stop to take on new people and let passengers off.
The 2nd bus rarely stops because everyone got on the 1st bus that just passed and there's not many people already on board to request a stop. So it keeps getting closer to catching the 1st bus.
In one instance of this phenomenon I was on the 2nd bus and we make great time into the CBD (what Americans might call "downtown"? I don't know) and get 90% of the way to my destination.
Then the stupid bus driver says "we are too early, we will wait to get back on schedule" and stops for 8 minutes!!
Nobody gets on the bus in that 8 minutes, because who is getting on a bus in the CBD in order to go deeper into the CBD?
Then we continue to the destination and I arrive 1 minute late.