Bus Services

---- A letter to the Editor

I have to travel every day from Geary Road to the Airport. Two buses travel along this route: the number 49 and number 16. However, by the time the number 16 bus reaches Geary Road it is always full, so it is of no use to me. This leaves the number 49, which sometimes has empty seats on it.

The timetable states that there are buses from Geary Road to the Airport every ten minutes. If this is so, why do I have to wait half an hour for bus nearly every day?

The regulations state that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why is it, therefore, that half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop?

The regulations state that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the Airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 of them.

Clearly printed on the back of every bus is a sign that says “Maximum speed: 50 m.p.h.” The distance from Geary Road to Oakland is 10 m. On Saturday morning a 49 bus travelled this distance in 10 minutes, at an average speed of m.p.h. At times it must have done at least 80 or even 90 m.p.h.

It is obvious that our bus companies have no respect for the regulations nor consideration for their passengers. Can nothing be done about this?

Yours,

Weary traveller

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