With buses simply not turning up, it’s hard not to get angry over it especially as the heat can’t be blamed anymore.
And it seems as if this isn’t a bigger of an issue as the vast majority of people who use the bus are pensioners who can wait all day, so it’s not the thing that would cause an uproar on twitter
Is it due to poor management of organising bus schedules and drivers, or are the drivers just sitting in the break room?
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It will be the same as any organisation anywhere else. Staff Sickness, traffic congestion, vehicle breakdowns/maintenance etc
> Is it due to poor management of organising bus schedules and drivers, or are the drivers just sitting in the break room?
They share the same roads as everyone else so are subject to the same delays. As they’re motor vehicles they also can have breakdowns and flat tyres. They also have to comply with EU drivers hours regs that specify how long you can drive without a break, how long you can work without a break, how many hours you can driver per day, per week and per fortnight. The impact of even small delays can be quite notable. I do a run from London to East Yorkshire where if the delays hold me up for 15 minutes in that 200 mile run it doesn’t just make me 15 minutes late, it makes me an hour late because I end up having to take a 45 minute mandatory driving break en-route. Same with a bus.
Not sure where you are, but round here, east midlands, trentbart tweet out a list of buses that aren’t running each day.
Been doing it for a while, saying there’s a shortage of drivers.
Pensioner’s can’t use their free bus pass before 9:30, so before that time the majority of users are people getting to work/education.
They have a big voice.
So it seems to me you are just trying to stir shit up as usual.
This is one of my favourite applications of maths. Assume that passengers appear randomly and roughly uniformly (they’re kind of evenly spread out)
1. A late bus gets later. The bigger time gap between it and the bus infront means that on average it gets more passengers. Each passenger slows it down even more. Bigger gap, more passengers.
2. An early bus gets earlier because a shorter gap to the bus infront means fewer passengers.
So, I guess the maths answer is probability and/or letting bus drivers get ahead of themselves.
No problems here with buses, where are you?
Infrastructure is very poor in my area. There aren’t very many bus lanes at all and the area generally is very car reliant.
During peak time you have lots of traffic, shoppers, people on the bus going to the 3 schools on route and all the secondary schools, typical commuters and people trying to get on the motorway making things worse.
The bus route serving my area is also on the busiest route to the city centre too. It doesn’t just stop in the city it carries on to another estate in the east side of the city.
It’s mainly traffic. Eventually a bus in traffic gets so late it gets turned round and then a bus is missing.
Non reliable drivers