Why the fuck are HSR buses always late? Literally, always!!

This is true..... finding out how late they are is actually a new hobby of mine.
When you get on the bus next time, take a peak at that touch screen monitor they always press, it usually has a time on it, an indication of whether it is late or early (notice i didnt say on time** :p) and how late the bus is.

dam buses are always 10 min early or late... really annoying. especially if they are early then you have to wait another 30-50 min for the next one.

Yep, well for me i found that the 34 is rarely on time :/

That's why i always leave some time when waiting for the hsr. So if the bus is supposed to come at 11:30, i am usually there before some time, so say around 11:20.
Sometimes the bus comes after 10 minutes of the scheduled time -__-
yea, i hate the 34, especially in the morning...

this fucking piss me off, today i ended up walking to school...

^^ that too... the frequency is also ridiculous. last week I walked from Camelot towers to west village suite without the bus showing up. I guess i just missed it when i left, but still to be able to walk all that way without another bus passing you by is not cool.

lol you guys are talking about walking and i am like noooooo way! I take 2 hsr buses and there's no way i can walk to downtown from my place :p will take forever that's why i wait for the bus, even if it's 10 minutes late :/

Not all routes are late, some drivers are more stringent than others. I always head to the stop at least 10 minutes before the arrival time; it doesn't kill you to go a little early.

Originally Posted by jim1

lol you guys are talking about walking and i am like noooooo way! I take 2 hsr buses and there's no way i can walk to downtown from my place :p will take forever that's why i wait for the bus, even if it's 10 minutes late :/

I hear ya.
Luckily for me though, I take the 25 so I'm guaranteed a bus every 20 minutes at least. It's the lesser serviced routes that are the problem... like the 43. Got stuck in a snowstorm out by cineplex in the cold for an hour waiting for a bus that wasn't running anywhere close to the scheduled times. You can't even head for shelter anywhere because you don't know when it's going to show up.


Mac students can complain all they want, if you live within walking distance, you have it easy x/ some of us live in this city all the time and have to deal with this stuff for day to day living.
How does anyone on stoney creek mountain get to limeridge on a sunday with no bus service? they'd have to take like 3 busses >__<

Originally Posted by ooburii

It's the lesser serviced routes that are the problem... like the 43. Got stuck in a snowstorm out by cineplex in the cold for an hour waiting for a bus that wasn't running anywhere close to the scheduled times. You can't even head for shelter anywhere because you don't know when it's going to show up.

That actually happened to me before! We left cineplex ancaster after a late movie and ended up walking all the way to the gas station that is on the intersection of golf link and stone church..if i remember correctly it was winter :| yeaa not a pleasant experience lol. I have had many problems with the 43 before :/

Originally Posted by jim1

That actually happened to me before! We left cineplex ancaster after a late movie and ended up walking all the way to the gas station that is on the intersection of golf link and stone church..if i remember correctly it was winter :| yeaa not a pleasant experience lol. I have had many problems with the 43 before :/

lol, I was talking about cineplex stoney creek though that one is a pain to get to because only the 43 goes there.
usually if I'm going to ancaster cineplex I never even bother with the 43 because the 41 is more reliable. you can catch it at the terminal area by the soccer field and tim hortons.

SO BRUTAL. I have to take a 27 to work and it was literally 16 minutes late today. I was ready to scream by the time they got there.

the bus was super late this morning and when we passed by a couple of stops ... didn't even stop !!! just passed by the students, they were all like http://i.imgur.com/79uPeyO.jpg?1?9669
one guy actually flipped the driver XD funny but i felt bad for them
besides there wasnt even a bus behind us to pick them.

30 minutes passed, the bus still hasn't come. WTFF

The HSR is a joke. There are so many problems with them, I dont even want to begin writing about all of them. The one thing I will say is that whoever came up with the bright idea of bunching the 1A, 5 and 51 buses together so that if you miss all 3 of them you have to wait another 20 minutes, really should go back to high school at the very least. A 10 year old can figure out that doing this is not a good idea.

Originally Posted by amare

The HSR is a joke. There are so many problems with them, I dont even want to begin writing about all of them. The one thing I will say is that whoever came up with the bright idea of bunching the 1A, 5 and 51 buses together so that if you miss all 3 of them you have to wait another 20 minutes, really should go back to high school at the very least. A 10 year old can figure out that doing this is not a good idea.

Transit is an imperfect thing. Nobody 'came up with the idea of bunching up busses'... it just happens. Are you stupid?

Have you ever been on a TTC bus and because it's behind schedule it would inform you that it is turning around before it reaches the end of it's route? Yup... HSR takes the approach to introduce intentional delays sometimes to keep with the schedule. They certainly need to stagger a bit more, but bunching happens because you can't delay if its not behind on its schedule.

Where can I find the schedule for the buses?