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Roland Perry · April 12th 12, 09:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london,uk.transport.buses

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16:58:38 on Sat, 7 Apr 2012, remarked:
There's buses in Nottingham with "up to every 8 minutes" written on
them. Which defies parsing.

Similar on a number of routes in Bradford and Leeds.

They've recently revamped the timetable near me (partly to adjust for
the cancellation of the previous Skylink service from Nottingham to East
Midlands airport). And one of the entries reads:

"Unilink 4 will continue to run from every 8 minutes during term-time to
provide up to 16 buses an hour to the City Centre from Clifton NTU"

So now it's "from every 8 minutes" which needs parsing.

If the *maximum* service is 16 per hour, that's better than one every 4
minutes. So do they actually mean that "every 8 minutes" is the *least*
frequent service available??

Probably not, because the timetable has it every 8 minutes in the peak
periods, every 12 minutes off-peak and every 15 minutes in the evening.

So where does the "16 buses an hour come from"?

Probably if you add the Unilink 4's 7.5bph to all the other services
along the same corridor.
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Roland Perry