Show HN: Londoners need not worry about the waiting time paradox (opens in new tab)

It does indeed have much shorter distances between stops than I've seen elsewhere in europe. The stops are however all optional - if noone flags the bus down and a passenger doesn't press a stop button, the bus won't stop. The buses are pretty frequent, but the amount of bus stops probably means that journey times are sacrificed for the convenience of quick and easy boarding

The average distance to the next public transport station in Switzerland is 360 metres. In cities it can drop below 200 metres. Yet the average delay/tardiness/late arrival is 16 seconds.

I don't believe this to be the case in Outer London, at least it's no different to smaller towns in the UK I've visited.

In Central and parts of Inner London it may be the case, however I tend to think buses are primarily designed as vehicles to get people to and from the tube/train network there.

Have you read showhn rules?

The schedule is not necessarily padded. The point of the piece is making it clear that London bus timetables are not in any way a source of truth, but a contract that operators have to work towards achieving. It is doubtless that they would have some input into what times are accepted as the contract and would only accept one they think they could manage to operate - so greater times than would generally be achievable.

As a londoner, if you wanted a timetable more based on truth, it would look more like the attached graphic on the page - an analysis of the spread of waiting times.