Quote Originally Posted by Detroitnerd View Post
Yup. Or when you hear somebody say, "But those buses are half-empty," [[though we know that when you need them most, they're not) think of how many cars in metro Detroit are 3/4 empty, or 4/5 empty, or 5/6 empty...
I think people are saying that SMART buses are empty, not D-DOT buses. Most suburbanites aren't driving down Davison and Linwood, so they're clueless about relative D-DOT capacity.

I tend to agree with those folks re. SMART. Obviously it's just random observations, but most SMART buses appear to be 100% empty, even at rush hour. Sometimes you'll see two or three folks on a bus. At rush hour you may see one person waiting along Woodward/14 Mile.

And my workday drive takes me along presumably major SMART corridors [[Woodward, Southfield, 14 Mile, Coolidge).