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Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by knz on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:06PM (#15716618)
Wouldn't you time your arrival at the bus stop to coincide with the arrival of the bus?

If you're waiting 30 minutes for an uninterrupted service you're doing it wrong....

Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by evo_9 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:10PM (#15716657)
You seem to think Denver is Tokyo where the actual people driving the buses and trains have pride in their work. That's not the case in Denver; when I came back from Tokyo in 2002 I was disgusted watching two or three buses nearly bumper to bumper pull up to my stop. If they had pride in their work this wouldn't happen; instead people just run their routes because it's there job, they don't care at all. Not sure why this is, maybe just a US thing? I hate to say it's a blood type thing by my ex-wife swore it was because Japan is largely A-positive blood type.
Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by freeone3000 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:16PM (#15716701)
The entire concept of a "blood type thing" has no basis in fact, and isn't commonly accepted in the West.
Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by evo_9 on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:27PM (#15716783)
Yeah it was surprising how often it came up. We'd just gotten married and every single relative I met asked my blood type within the first minute. And everyone was shocked that I had no idea what mine was, or that my my ex married me without knowing it. I just chalked it up to a sort of horoscope for Japan, or fan will kill you if left on while sleeping Korean myth type of thing.
Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by bproven on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:26PM (#15716777)
Its mainly b/c mass transit is considered an afterthought and is not a first class citizen in America. That is why we are stuck...
Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by antisthenes on Thursday November 16, 2017 @06:41PM (#15717725)
That is simply the state of public transportation in the US. I don't use buses very frequently, but the times I had to, my success rate with getting on a bus at the time it was scheduled is somewhere around 40%.

Sometimes it comes 15 minutes late, sometimes it doesn't come entirely and then it's a 30 minute wait (or longer) until the next one. One time it actually came early AND left early. I have no idea what the people who expected it 10 minutes later did. I guess they had to wait 40 minutes.

And it's not a walkable distance either (5-6 miles), so I still have to wait.

Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by sliken on Friday November 17, 2017 @12:26AM (#15719197)
I took the bus in Pittsburgh PA for many years. I'd often show up 10 minutes before the scheduled arrival time and quite commonly the busses were 20-30 minutes late... or didn't come. Or came by, but didn't stop.

Waiting for 30 minutes seemed about the average.

Re:Denver Radically Expanded Its Transit, So Why Are More Pe... by bairrd on Thursday November 16, 2017 @04:08PM (#15716642)
Buses, given they lack a prioritized corridor, are still up to the whims of traffic, so it's not like they show up at exactly 30 minute intervals...