Missed the bus

[pne]

The bus this morning was late, and behind the driver was standing another person in uniform... perhaps the driver was being trained? He also drove rather slowly and (over-?)cautiously, I thought.

At any rate, we pulled into the bus station in Harburg just around the time my other bus was supposed to have left. I thought I might still be in luck since my connecting bus is sometimes late, but I think I saw it a bit further down the road.

My suspicions were confirmed when the bus took another 20 minutes to arrive: I had missed the first one because (a) the bus was late and (b) the (already late) bus drove more slowly than usual.

Had I known this in advance, I would have asked the bus driver to radio ahead to ask the other bus to wait in Harburg. As it is, I came to work even later than I already was.

Comments

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well, they do that in Hamburg; I don't know about other cities.

During a customer survey, they even asked whether I had taken advantage of that service in the evenings, which sounded as if it's a semi-official service of the bus company. (Though I've had to use it more in the mornings on my way to work -- but I can see how it would be more valuable in the evening when busses are further apart and missing one might make you have to wait for 40 minutes, depending on the time of night and the bus line.)

[elgrande.livejournal.com]

Wow, so 40 minutes is a long time to wait? If you miss the bus here in Münster at night, you sometimes have to wait for two hours and if you're lucky enough to miss the last one, it can take 4 or 5 hours until the next one arrives some time in the morning.