To wait for the 20 Downtown on Lancaster Drive is to take a gamble. Sometimes the bus shows up fifteen minutes early and sometimes it doesn’t show up at all. Either way, you miss the bus and get to class or work half an hour late. I’m sick and tired of it. It’s been three years of countless complaints and no results. So Metro Transit, do your job so that I can do mine!
This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2008.
I believe you forgot the H in Metro TransHit.It’s not *always* thr driver’s fault – there *is* traffic out here.HOWVERE, if I see one more bus driver blatantly IGNORE people getting off their bus and running toward them while they drive away to sit at a RED traffic light, I am going kick him in the throat.
sorry for the spelling – I’m ham-fingered when irritated. 🙂
Welcome to the wonderful world of Metro Transit, where the operaotrs are proud union men and women with no need or motivation to provide anything resembling good service and the management is powerless to do anything about it.
I too live on lancaster and have teenage children who have missed plenty of buses due to never knowing when it was going to be there. We have complained many times over our two years there, it doesn’t seem to matter.
I’m guessing noone pays any attention to where the bus has to travel. The 20 had to be rerouted to avoid the mess on Chebucto Rd for the past 3 months. When it heads out to the Cove, it sits in traffic that will put it 5-10 minutes behind depending on how good the traffic control is that day (cars going straight at the lights block those that want to go right on Mumford). What this means for Joe Traveller is that the bus will arrive at William King late. Once Chebucto Rd is back to normal, this should get a bit better.Late buses happen for many reasons outside of the driver’s control. It is this reason why complaints about tardiness will likely fizzle. Might I suggest doing what transit drivers do and catch the bus one BEFORE the one you need.