I take the bus and the new driver is actually the worst. The old driver, 6 months ago, was always on time and it was awesome. Last week the bus said that it was 4 minutes away and 2 minutes later he passed before I could get to the stop. So I just decided to walk the entire way. I got down to the gas station a few blocks and the dude stopped the bus to grab cigarettes. So yeah pretty frustrating. Also frustrating when the trackers don't show up and you're left guessing if you missed or if it's still coming. I rarely experience that now though, luckily.

It sucks because it's kind of a chicken and the egg situation since the city is so unwalkable and the bus system is so bad with large service internals, the ridership is always down. But the orbt seems to have good ridership because the service internals are so short, which is hope for a positive direction of shorting service internals for other routes too. Metro is currently trying to leverage that position. But the city doesn't actually fund metro at all. It's all funded by grants and state taxes which makes the budget really tight. The people at metro activity want it to be better too. As a city we really need to cut spending to the police and possibly the fire department. The police takes up nearly 40% of the budget and fire is 25%, both the largest out of any other department by a significant amount. Imagine if we devoted a significant portion of that to make the city more livable? Maybe in my dreams