Certain routes like the #11 and #8 simply need more buses as they are frequently packed and seats are difficult to find. Increasing dedicated bus lanes could decrease traffic delays making busses more reliable and quicker. Bringing innovations from the Metrorail like real-time updated schedules and information about delays would greatly benefit bus drivers and cut down on useless and anger-inducing waits for passengers. Once the bus system actually becomes more reliable, people may start to drive less and take the bus more, which would limit Miami’s other great source of collective suffering-traffic. Instead of letting go any expectations about it arriving on time, better that we as its most frequent riders continue to vocally demand better service.Ĭontinuing to call each time the bus is late would at least provide the county with data so that they could better see where and when they experience delays. Such a detached attitude might be possible if people did not rely on the bus for getting to work, running errands and seeing friends and family. They all just figured speaking would do not good since no one was listening. His cynical laughter toward my complaint echoed a kind of futility that I had heard in the voices of so many people complaining to each other about the bus service. “Don’t you know, nothing will change by you doing that.” One time while complaining about a late bus, I heard a man laughing behind me. Instead of shouting at the bus driver who is merely trying to navigate traffic and drive their route, often I will call Miami-Dade transit to lodge a complaint every time the bus is more than fifteen minutes late. Finally as my bus arrived, an elderly woman who had waited much longer began to fume. Just the other day I was waiting for a bus that was 40 minutes late.
Ideas about the deficiencies in the bus system for many riders seems to reveal a profoundly cynical if not realistic understanding by working class people in Miami-Dade as to how much the county is willing to invest in their ability to move efficiently. The most common topic of conversation between bus riders is not about local events or the weather, but the unreliability of the bus system. Plainly, in Miami-Dade the bus system’s only reliability is its unreliability. Bogota recently strengthened its image internationally with their successful and much imitated TransMilenio bus system.īus service in Miami-Dade expresses something profound as well, but not necessarily a vision the county would want to be widely known for. Public transportation in many ways captures the zeitgeist of a time and place. Adorned with art nouveau entrances and gorgeous white tiled interiors, Paris’s metro harkens back to the days of grand public works.
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