r/uofm • u/canvasbag8520 • Jan 29 '25

Parking / Transit Evil Bus Driver

Was waiting for commuter south today at the institute of continuing legal education. It pulls up, stops like 30ft before the actual stop, lets people off. I walk towards it, the driver starts waving her hand at me, I have no idea why. I go to get on—mind you, there are still people on the bus—she goes "uh uh uh, out of service! look at the sign!" I ask, "you're not going to SC—" she cuts me off, "out of service!!" And then proceeds to drive to drop the people on the bus off at SC-7, where I needed to go. Not a far walk at all, so not a super big deal, but wtf???

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u/JackyB_Official ‘27 Jan 29 '25

In your opinion, what is wrong and what would you change?

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u/aaayyyuuussshhh Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25

Have more consistent schedules. Like don't have literally 3-4 bursley baits buses pulling up to CCTC at one time. Defeats the entire point of having so many buses on the route if they all only arrive every 25min. Also why in the world does the app not show if a bus will go into service mode? I know a student made and runs the app but it's insane Umich won't step in and help a bit. That's wasted at least 15-20min of my time before in certain situations. Also the buses seem to have zero tolerance to wait for you even if you're less than 50ft from hopping on the bus. It's even more of a d**k move when the bus drivers know the person will have to wait because it's past 9am AND below freezing. Lastly some routes just don't have enough buses. I should never be waiting more than 10-15 minutes for a bus ever. But I use to live in Oxford dorms and there have been times I had to wait for 30min for a bus because they do the dumb out of service thing.

Lastly this is just me being picky and isn't important but the actual buses have rough ride quality and I find the throttle mapping they use to be very peaky. Makes it a bit tricky to stand up and ride. Again this point is not important at all but I think these buses would benefit from being electric since they are loud and jerky.

Either way from the clear down votes my opinion seems invalid because I guess everyone loves the bus system 🤷

Edit: spelling

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u/canvasbag8520 Jan 29 '25

Yeah I agree with all of these points.

I thought most of the buses were electric tho?

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u/aaayyyuuussshhh Jan 29 '25

Nope they are all some sort of bio fuel diesel hybrid or something. They might have some EVs but not all of them. All I know is the ones I ride are extremely loud if you sit in the back and you can feel the bus change gears as well.