Bottle Up And Explode




Dearest TriMet

Could you please stop turning this into San Francisco? There are many things I love about that city, but waiting thirty to forty minutes (if not more) for a bus and then having two arrive simultaneously, bunched like bananas, to be followed one minute later by a third, is not one of them.

In today’s example, there wasn’t even any bunching. You simply vanished two entire runs of the 15-Belmont into a black hole. Perhaps the Oregon Vortex shifted position due to the Washington earthquake?

Based on times for the stop at SE 39th, after just missing the 12:23, I stood around to watch the utter lack of the 12:38, to be followed by the equally-utter lack of the 12:53. Eventually, the 1:03, quite miraculously I assure you, managed to put in an appearance more or less on schedule.

For the math-challenged at TriMet, that would be a grand total of forty minutes wait time. I’m not entirely certain just what planet you all hail from, but here on Earth, that’s not “frequent service” by any potential definition.

Thanks.

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