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It's pretty remarkable how buses in other cities manage to adhere to the published schedule, but MUNI can't seem to manage. I've ridden buses all over the world, and MUNI is absolutely the worst at scheduling or latency. It's almost like they aren't even trying. And even if you drop the requirement of "stick to the schedule", they still suck: you can have two lines running the same route up a major thoroughfare (e.g.…
I noticed that certain lines on AC Transit in Berkeley would routinely have the three back-to-back buses problem and wrote a post on it a while ago: http://andrewfong.com/blog/2009/11/12/bus-scheduling/ Long story short, having a slew of people trying to board and disembark at the same time creates a lot of delay. It seems like the sort of thing you could address by having trailing bus(es) during peak hours. But if y…
I don't know what ridiculous decision making resulted in this system, but it's not as if the problems are difficult to diagnose.