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Old March 17th 12, 12:37 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at
06:45:22 on Sat, 17 Mar 2012,
remarked:
There's buses in Nottingham with "up to every 8 minutes" written on
them. Which defies parsing.


Similarly the Cambridge Park and Ride buses with "up to every 10
minutes".


There's a "glass half full/half empty" issue with these claims.

I read them as "you'll always have to wait at least 10 minutes for a
bus", and it says nothing about how many tph they are offering (the
gullible assume it's 6tph of course).


The Mon-Fri P&R service is 6 buses per hour from the first bus until 18:00
and every 20 minutes thereafter until end of service at about 20:00. That in
detail is the 99 (Green, Milton P&R to Babraham Road) but others are similar.

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Colin Rosenstiel