Its quite strange how the public transport system works. It could be just my bus route, but somehow theres quite a difference in the services. (Warning: whinge factor 10)
"But what do you mean Ez?"
I'll tell you what I mean, and for a low monthly fee of err... actually just buy me food - I'll let you know the solution to all our problems. So the problem is this - the bus route starts at 6:30am or so in the morning, taking all the working commuters into the central business district (CBD) for their daily office job. For my bus route, this comes about every 10 minutes until 8am, when it stops becoming every 10 minutes and reverts to coming every 30 minutes until it stops at around 6pm. So during the period between 6:30 and 8, theres about 10 bus services. This is completely fine. The buses aren't too crowded, theres only the minimal amount of people standing, its generally on time, and theres been a minimal fuss about this in the past few years.
On the other side of the coin the commute back home is a nightmare. For all the people that the buses take to work in the morning, there aren't quite enough buses to take them back. When people normally start work at 8:30am or 9am, they'll finish between 4:30pm and 5:30pm. But the problem is, between 4:30 and 6pm, theres a total of 5 buses to take people back. So we have to cram 10 busloads of people into 5 buses for the trip back. Not exactly what you'd call optimal.
Its also a lot harder to stand on buses than it is on trains. Trains usually go in a straight line, slow down left often, don't have to stop for traffic lights, and don't go around hairpin turns. Buses have traffic lights, bus stops every 200m or so, and do hairpins right before hitting the freeway. Something a rubber handhold isn't quite going to help you with.
I promised the solution to this problem... It'll be short and sweet, but just wait till next week. Or view the source.
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