Ya, I know that I have not been blogging in a while. I keep on thinking up "great posts", but by the time I sit down at a computer to put fingers to keyboard I just don't have the energy. Meh. Okay, on to the post...
I've got a theory about what OC transpo has been telling their drivers lately: the drivers that make the most riders ill in the next couple of months gets a christmas bonus. All the drivers seem lately to be either 100% on the gas or 100% on the breaks. I've got a short bus ride (hung up the bike for the winter), and I feel like I'm going to puke by the time that I get to work / home.
My alternative theory is that since they are tracking all buses by GPS they are keeping a closer tab on drivers staying on schedule. Either way, I've got to be careful not to toss my cookies. :-/
I love those little GPS units, it lets the drivers know exactly how late they really are. I usually try to make a point of looking at the GPS unit. That big number top centre is how late/early they are. If there's an "L" beside the number, then they are late. Personally, I don't mind if they are 5 minutes late. What bothers me is when they leave the time point 5 minutes early. Especially when the bus only comes every half hour. So, you actually show up on time, and you still end up waiting 30 minutes for the bus.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I too miss riding my bike, I could make the trip a lot faster on my bike, which is pretty sad when you think about it.
Here's my theory on why the buses are always late. There's 70 routes that go through downtown. Which causes a lot of unneed congestion because a lot of them have less than 10 people on them. The one bus that I take to go to work goes through downtown during the hours of 3pm through to 6pm. Anybody who's been on bus downtown during rush hour knows that there is no concept of a schedule, and that you could walk faster from Bay to Elgin. So when I go to get on the bus at 5:15, it's always at least 5 minutes late, if not 20 feet in front of the bus that's supposed to be 10 minutes behind it. Sometimes they come in clusters of 3. Which ends up meaning that I've waited half an hour for a bus that's supposed to come every 10 minutes.