[LINK] OT: ACTION Bus Timetables

[Ash Nallawalla]

Great letter, Roger.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, can you see where the current
timetable works like a charm for some other combinations of bus-changes?  It
would make a good project for a CompSci class (cue TomW) to design the best
schedule.

Before my daughter got her full driving licence, she used to take the
VicRail train to Geelong and miss the bus to Deakin Uni by 3 minutes.  The
next one was something like 45 minutes later, so she often called on her
brother or classmates to give her a lift.  This apparent craziness made more
sense when we saw the tiny bus stop on a narrow road at the Geelong campus
and how it could not sustain several buses all arriving at once. These buses
went to other destinations in Geelong and the one for the railway station
had to get its own time slot and not stuff up the other buses.

Ash

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-
> bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke
> Sent: Monday, 25 October 2010 11:43
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: [LINK] OT: ACTION Bus Timetables
> 
> The design of web-sites to support public transport could be argued to be
> within the link list's scope.
> 
> But I've marked this email as Off-Topic because it's mainly a confirmation
of
> the utter unprofessionalism of so much IT work.