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[email protected] · March 18th 12, 12:04 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
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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.

But I noticed today that a Citi 1 bus stop in Campkin Road had a more
precise formula: "buses to city centre *every 10 minutes* Mon-Sat daytimes".

Mind you its Real Time Information screen told me at 14:43 there were Citi 1
buses to Cherry Hinton "DUE", "2 min" and "14:45". I didn't see any bus
while I was nearby.

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Colin Rosenstiel