'If it says six minutes on the board, you would expect it to change to five minutes after one minute'
A Leeds man who became annoyed at buses always being late has spent months researching timetables to prove why they are late.
He said: "It started off as a personal grievance, as an annoyance more than anything. I was just bored of waiting around all the time and realised I had the skills to look into it – so I did. He said: “The goal was to get onto the internet and find out where the live timetables are getting their bus data from - which you can actually do quite easily. Once I did that, I created an automated way of doing that by writing a computer programme that checks for you. And I made that computer programme pull down every single minute for two solid weeks."
"If it says six minutes on the board, you would expect it to change to five minutes after one minute, but that’s not true – that’s not what happens. If you actually measure it, it says those times for sometimes even three minutes. So whatever their prediction mechanism is, it’s just wrong." “They said they were quite happy to work with me or whoever is the expert at solving this issue. They even invited me to a chat on Wednesday about how we might go about solving it.”
"But my job is a physics lecturer and researcher. I did this out of interest. It’s not something I can do, and I’m not going to quit my job to do this.”
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