Unbelievable!
June 30, 2008Have you ever used the mass transit system, in any city? Well, I do so in Seattle and I started doing so while I am here in Tucson. One would think that just like every other place in the whole wide world, a specific bus number has a specific route, right?! One would be very wrong! I found out the hard way that there are at least three routes numbered 8 that start from the same hub, but have different destinations far from each other! Hence one cannot just pay attention to the number, but has to quickly read the tiny destination on the bus as well! Here is my question: What idiot got paid to design this system?
I actually ran into that problem a while back here is Seattle. I don’t remember the number, but apparently the same number bus had two different routes, differentiated only by the one abbreviated word that does after the number. One of the many things that can make the bus system confusing for a beginner.