A “nation-wide” problem

Issue 231 | 8 January 2022

You wait ages and then three buses turn up at once

The old joke that you wait ages for one bus, then three come along at once, is bordering on cliché. But, according to City Monitor, it also turns out to be true and not just because of bad planning, but also because of maths¹.

The phenomenon is so common, in fact, that it has a choice of names. Bus bunchin…