Let me tell you: no matter how "inflexible" it may seem, it is a tremendous load off my mind to know that I can always find the bus at the same stop at the same time heading to the same destination
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In fact it's kind of a precondition for my being able to rely on it at all
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One of the worst things about the bus schedules where I live is the sheer variability: a given route runs one schedule on weekdays, another on saturdays, a third on sundays, and may operate entirely different weekday, saturday, and sunday schedules when schools are on vacation
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Other routes simply won't run at all on Sundays--or on Sundays AND Saturdays--and a few *change their route* depending on the day of the week. Some routes operate different schedules on Thursdays and Fridays than they do Monday thru Wednesday.
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Possibly the worst offender is Route 38, which connects Amherst w Mount Holyoke College: this route operates every half hour when the colleges are in session & doesn't run at all during vacations... ...except during winter break, when it operates every 40 minutes...
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...and then it has *yet another* schedule which it operates during the end of December and Spring Break, where it operates 4 round trips a day. The regular school year schedule is different on M-W, Thursday, Friday, Sat, and Sun. Winter schedule is similar, but M-Th is constant.
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Needless to say, this is dizzying to keep track of--trips that are easy to make during the week (while I'm working) become impossible as soon as I get some time off. The aforementioned Route 38 is ideal for hiking--but doesn't run during the summer, which is the best time to hike
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Oh one more thing: schedules for all routes get updated as many as *four times every year,* so by the time you memorize one you might be too late.
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That's absurd. The 38 is also somewhat redundant with the 29 as well, correct?
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The 29 operates every 2 hours during weekdays, and twice a day during weekends--no use for the heavy ridership that the 38 gets. Moreover, it operates from the Springfield garage instead of the UMass one, and so it has a farebox...
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...students and residents in the Amherst area are accustomed to paying nothing to ride the bus, and there is no sign of this changing soon
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I actually rode the 29 recently--it pulled up to a stop in Amherst center where a girl was waiting, she asked the driver (having never seen this bus before) if he would go to UMass. He said "yes, but you need to pay the fare." "Oh haha, nevermind, thanks!"
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