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Martin_Williamson@mindlink.bc.ca wrote:

: >It makes sense for the buses to arrive and leave at the same time (no 
: >staggering) at major bus exchanges such as Kootenay, Phibbs, Ladner, 
: >Lougheed, etc. where many people transfer between buses.  Transferring is 
: >rare at UBC however.  Since the majority of UBC bus passengers are 
: >environmentally friendly and/or poor students, they are coming/going from 
: >their classes, not trying to switch buses.

: How do you propose to get the buses to arrive at the same time at the
: above mentioned exchanges if they leave UBC every two minutes?

UBC buses don't go to those exchanges, except for the #10 at Kootenay.  
For the most part, timed bus exchanges are in the suburbs where 
passengers have to make transfers to get where they are going.  I don't 
consider UBC a bus exchange but a mass pickup/dropoff point for students 
going to and coming from class.  Keeping a steady flow of buses entering 
and leaving the loop is more appropriate in this context than having many 
buses leave at once.  

: This just changes the place of waiting from UBC to the next transfer
: point.

Not necessarily.  You might fluke out and actually catch your connecting bus.

: The day we can predict exactly all enevitabilities we won't need
: transportation.

I agree that it is hard to predict everything that can cause a bus not to 
show up, but what about the passenger?  When a bus does not come (I'm not 
talking about buses coming a few minutes late, I'm talking about not 
showing up at all), nothing is done to notify the passenger and as a 
result, they are left standing there.  I can forgive BC Transit if this 
happens seldomly but in my 6 years of bussing, there has been a 10% 
bus-cancellation rate.  This is an accurate stat, as I have been all 
around the Vancouver system.  10% is unnacceptable.

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