From: Caolan McNamara (Caolan.McNamara at domain ul.ie)
Date: Mon 29 Mar 1999 - 15:46:21 IST
On 29-Mar-99 Liam Bedford wrote:
>>
>> liam mentioned melissa put him in a bad mood. dublin bus does this to
>> me frequently. tangentially related, but i'm a tangential kind of guy
>Just be glad you're not on the 47 route.. damn things never appear on time
>(saturday, went down to the stop at 8:00 p.m., bus due at 8:25, doesn't
>arrive,
>have to wait for the next one at 9.15)... grr.. :)
Personally, what id like to do is stick a few cameras on the bus stop that
take snapshots of buses when they arrive, and timestamp them. correlate the
times against the bus timetable. and offer bonuses to bus drivers that actually
get their bus to arrive on time. I spent a few months in the netherlands, and
i found it so amusing how efficient the bus and trains were. The public
announcement service would announce very infrequently the bad news that the
train was going to be 2minutes late, and the crowd of commuters would go mad!,
and stamp about the place annoyed. Seeing as the trains have arrival times like
14:03, and departure times like 14:07, and would actually hit those times
perfectly, i always imagined that the only reason the trains could be 2 minutes
late was either that a bridge collapsed and the train driver had to carry the
train across the river on his back, or that some kind of nuclear strike had
targetted it.
Another *mad* idea, is that seeing as students aren't on campus during the
holidays, and are there during term, maybe there should be different amounts
of buses on the routes for different amounts of commuters, silly me.
C.
Real Life: Caolan McNamara * Doing: MSc in HCI
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