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I finally figured out why my bus was always 10 minutes late
For the past 6 months I've been catching the 7:15 AM bus from the Maplewood stop in St. Paul and it was always showing up around 7:25 or later. I was blaming the driver or the route until last Tuesday I actually looked at the schedule board at the station. Turns out the bus before mine gets stuck at a railroad crossing on Cedar Street for a solid 8-9 minutes every morning because of a freight train that rolls through at 7:05. Now I just walk two blocks to the next stop past the crossing and I'm on time. Has anyone else found a weird timing trick like that for their commute?
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the_drew1mo ago
Whoa, did you check if the bus driver secretly hates mornings as much as I do?
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Nah but don't you think the driver probably knows about the train and just rolls with it? Most of them have been doing the same route for years, they know exactly where the delays are.
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