Why Crawling Buses ?
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DRIVING buses on busy routes is not an easy job, but the men in charge of them experience much adverse criticism from uninformed members of The public. I have often been told by passengers that buses are taking a ridiculously long time to complete certain journeys when, in fact, the normal running times have been observed.
Bus speeds are set by stops or the lack of them and in congested areas it is impossible to estimate times in advance. Drivers generally run the first part of the route fairly quickly, so that they will not be caught out by unexpected obstructions at the later stages. Often, in order to maintain an average speed of, say, 16 m.p.h. on certain routes, the vehicles have to be driven hard, hut the driver, after allowing for obstructions and holdups, may have a clear run and then have to reduce speed to maintain the correct service frequency.
Paisley. J. CONNELL.