How to Read a Printed Schedule
Reading Your Route’s Information (Schedule Books & Bus Stop Schedules)
Reading a bus schedule for the first time can be a little confusing. But with a little practice you can learn this new skill that will help you navigate your transit system with confidence and ease. The printed schedules in our schedule book and at our bus stops display the information in a different format than the website does. This information is pertinent to reading a printed schedule.
TIMETABLES
Timetables don’t show every stop on a route, but instead only show timepoints. Timepoints are set times that the bus stops at certain locations along a route. The bus’s arrival at stops between timepoints is estimated using the prior timepoint. A best practice is to be at your stop at the time listed for the prior timepoint and expect to wait 5-10 minutes.
FREQUENCY
The timetables in our schedule book show a route’s frequency. Frequency is how often a bus travels a route during service hours.
STOP TIMES
This timetable tells us that on Sundays the route has a frequency of every 60 minutes during service hours of 9:45AM-3:45PM. Then, it shows the minutes for each timepoint. Using this timetable, you know: The bus stops at Walmart at 9:59AM, 10:59AM, 11:59AM, and so on until 3:59PM. Trips with deviations from the standard frequency (like this 4:45PM trip) are always shown in full.
