Observing a City Bus

Background: There seems to be about 50 seats as a city bus, but some people want to stop in case of getting off in a hurry (about 2, 3 stations). This space is even smaller, but due to the outside rain, this moment and time is not crowded, which hinders people from get on the bus. The most common objects are headphones, bus books, and passenger smartphones. The younger a rider is, the more likely they have smart phones unless they are with their parents.

When I was not worried about the world, the bus that I got at the end of my first school day wrote the "horizon". I was not accustomed to the bus route, I observed how the bus systematically emptied elementary school students. I am sitting behind the bus. The school began at 7:30 and went out at 2 pm, but this is the first time I thought that there was something wrong. It took only 20 minutes by bus to get there that morning. When the next child comes down, the mirror in the driver's seat can be seen well with the rearview mirror. At 4:15 p.m., only seven people were on the bus and were lost on the bench. As I made a note because it must follow the long-distance scenic route in the western suburbs, a special "Horizon" bus will not be used in the future.

Regarding personal assignment, I decided to observe at the Lakewood station in downtown Tacoma, the ST Express bus in downtown Seattle. I chose to observe by bus. People frequently get on and off. That means that I can see well. It takes about 1 hour and 15 minutes to reach the bus, so I have enough time to observe. I was surprised that many people were sleeping on the bus. I noticed that sleep is the most common activity on the bus. To my surprise, people often wake up for several minutes before they stop. They do not seem to set warnings or something special. They arise naturally when they stop. I noticed that the stops for those who got off the bus might not be their original stops, they got off at those places as they missed the first stop. Since I do not know their situation, I decided not to make any assumptions.

In most cities, when you want to get on the bus you have to shake the parking lot. Although this is not a problem in itself, there are dozens of bus lines that stop at a particular bus stop in big cities, so bus stops can not accommodate so many vehicles. Because other buses block their sight, people often can not observe the opposite bus. If the driver of the bus does not know if someone gets on his bus, it is OK to be late, so it is normal for the driver to miss seeing the time or stopping on the bus. . Between. Some people enter the middle of a busy street waiting for their bus to make sure they see it and the driver sees them. In some places like Manaus, the driver will even ignore the parking request (stop on and off) if it is not easy to navigate to the bus stop.