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).
--
Roland Perry

On Mar 17, 12:10*pm, 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).

?

In message
, at
05:39:38 on Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Mizter T 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).

"up to every 10 minutes" is intended to suggest that the buses run as
frequently as every ten minutes a lot of the time, but less frequently
than that at other times.

Not that they are *more* frequent than that at other times.

Hence if you've just missed one, you can guarantee a wait of ten minutes
at 'peak' periods, and longer than that outside peak periods.

Gullible punters translate "every 10 minutes" into 6tph, even though
(for example) the Oxford Tube's "every 10 minutes" is actually "every
10-15 minutes", even in the peaks, so could be as few as 4tph.
--
Roland Perry

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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

In article ,
() wrote:

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.

--
Colin Rosenstiel