Ernold Same is on holiday

Ernold Same will resume Dulchester bus appreciation on December 6th.

AM: C1, 42 minutes. Superb. If the evening service was half as good I wouldn't bother keeping this log.
PM: Afternoon off.

AM: C1, 49 minutes. We were unlucky with the lights at Norm Station Roundabout.
PM: B6. Didn't turn up at all, caught next bus, walked home from bus station in 69* minutes.

AM: C1, 45 minutes.
PM: E, walked home voluntarily (noticing traffic tailing back to the 4100-yard point).

AM: B1, 44 minutes. Canonical.
PM: D6. Didn't turn up again, caught a different bus, traffic tailed back to the 3800-yard point, walked home from there in 63* minutes.

AM: B3, 43 minutes. Excellent timing, and the driver was in a good mood. Unfortunately we left rather early.
PM: C3, 47 minutes. Really good run, despite the efforts of the man in Fast Food (Anglia)'s van EU03 HKD to plaster his vehicle along the side of the bus at the Prince Consort roundabout.

AM: B1, 44 minutes.
PM: B6. Bus didn't turn up at all, caught the next one (which was also late) to an appointment I had. Bit of luck walking home later along Norm Station Road, when I spotted a bus stuck in traffic, overtook it, got on at the station and was home 15 minutes early.

AM: C1, 44 minutes.
PM: B6. Usual bus left early, took a (packed) alternative bus to Norm Station and walked from there, 63* minutes.

AM: D1, 51 minutes. Rain, 3 cycles of lights to get round Norm Station roundabout.
PM: B6. Bus didn't turn up at all, caught another one, walked home from bus station. 73* minutes.

AM: B1, 43 minutes. Good going.
PM: Walked home voluntarily, 75* minutes.

AM: D1, 56 minutes. Traffic quite sticky at Norm Station, and again in Norm Station Road.
PM: B2, 44 minutes. Quite good. Morning and evening conditions seem to have reversed themselves today.

AM: C1, 47 minutes. Traffic on Norm Station Road again.
PM: C3, 55 minutes.

AM: C1, 44 minutes. Unusual tailback on Norm Hill.
PM: B1 - walked home voluntarily from the bus station.

AM: F1, 69 minutes. Outrageously bad traffic tailing back up Tedium Road to the 600-yard point. Took so many cycles of lights to get onto Norm Station Roundabout that I lost count. A Mercedes was blocking the entrance to the bus lane in Mild Ennui Road, and my attention was distracted by the ensuing display of class conflict.

PM: B1, 47 minutes. Good average run.

AM: B1, 44 minutes. Tops.
PM: B1, 44 minutes. But at Norm Station I was the last person left on the bus, and the driver enquired as to where I was going. I explained that I wanted to go to the hospital, and we duly continued our journey.

AM - C1, 54 minutes. Rain, 5 cycles of lights to get onto Norm Station Roundabout, unusual traffic going into Dulchester along Norm Station Road, stuck for 5 minutes on the far side of the level crossing. Why is parking allowed in the narrow bit of Grindstedium Road in the rush hour?

PM - C6, 66* minutes. Queen Dull St traffic tailing back to the church, walked home from the 3700-yard point.

AM - D2, 48 minutes. Took 6 cycles of lights to get onto Norm Station Roundabout. I think the lights have been adjusted to change more frequently, though.
If I was in my car I would take the first exit off the roundabout as if I was going to the Average superstore, and come back round the Average roundabout in the outside lane, where there's hardly any traffic. That would leave me a clear path back over the station roundabout and onto the forecourt.

PM - B6, 48 minutes. Not a bad run, but left 3 minutes early.

AM: C2, 45 minutes.

PM: D3, 60 minutes. Driver pulled the reverse trick to Thursday - skipped Norm Station Layby in favour of Forecourt.

AM: C3, 45 minutes. Traffic tailing back from Dulchester Station Roundabout, but no problems getting round it. (All morning door-to-door times from now on are based on a new route involving 2 minutes' extra walking).

PM: C3, 47 minutes. Driver made everyone who wanted to go to Norm Station Forecourt get off at Norm Station Layby. Good news for me, but a cheap trick all the same. There was no traffic at all outside the multi-storey near St Borings. Very odd, after a whole week of X-certificate hold-ups bad enough to make it into the Dulchester Evening Gazette. And traffic has to be very, very bad indeed to make news in Dulchester.

AM: C2, 40 minutes. Driver cunningly avoided the problematic lights on Dulchester Station roundabout by not using the bus lane. We arrived 5 minutes early at the bus station, as was happening during half term. Excellent.

PM: E2, 60 minutes. Traffic in St Boredom St and Norm Hill bad, but surprisingly better from Dulchester Station Road onwards.

AM: E2, 53 minutes. Traffic queuing back from Dulchester Station roundabout all the way to Tedium Road. 3 cycles of lights to get onto the roundabout. Don't shoot the driver though, he is doing his best.

PM: F2, 60* minutes. Traffic queueing back down way down Ennui Hill to the 4200-yard point. Driver correctly suggested we'd be better off continuing on foot, which I did.

AM: C2, 40 minutes. Traffic queuing back from the Dulchester Station roundabout, but light elsewhere.

PM: B1, 40 minutes. Exactly as timetabled. 'Perfection of Bus Journey'. Let's hear it for this afternoon's driver!