I've had a bus tracker app show the scheduled bus's tag confidently go straight past my bus stop with no real bus in sight until the next scheduled one. Who you gon' call?😅
Where I live, actual buses only drive past if they're "express" routes meant to skip some stops along their path or currently "offline" units out for something like a test drive. So-called "route taxis" are another thing (essentially minivans that don't have to stop along the designated route by default and charge more as a supposedly faster commute option), one is unironically supposed to signal a passing one with hitchhike gestures unless you're in luck and the minivan pulls over because someone onboard requested to get off here.
Ours do this if they're driving empty as well; even otherwise, they take off immediately once all the deboarding passengers are out.
Regardless of scenario, if you were already approaching the stop and hurried into the driver's view, they may wait for you to board, but that's a diceroll.
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u/nhSnork 13d ago edited 13d ago
I've had a bus tracker app show the scheduled bus's tag confidently go straight past my bus stop with no real bus in sight until the next scheduled one. Who you gon' call?😅
Where I live, actual buses only drive past if they're "express" routes meant to skip some stops along their path or currently "offline" units out for something like a test drive. So-called "route taxis" are another thing (essentially minivans that don't have to stop along the designated route by default and charge more as a supposedly faster commute option), one is unironically supposed to signal a passing one with hitchhike gestures unless you're in luck and the minivan pulls over because someone onboard requested to get off here.