Hey MTA, how about checking into the drivers on the #7 route between Mondawmin and Canton. Seems a lot don't bother going the entire routes. Many times we have waited and waited for the # 7 and it doesn't show, even though we see it going the opposite direction. If the drivers don't feel like working, there are plenty of us out there who would gladly take the jobs.

The easiest way to improve on-time bus performance is simple: fix the timing of the traffic signals. Baltimore used to have well timed traffic signals along major streets - which typically are also bus routes. Today the timing on most streets is pathetic, almost as if the timing is intentionally designed to inhibit traffic flow. A fifth grader could design better signal timing. Fix the timing and fix the problem.
Question: How do you know when a traffic signal in Baltimore is about to turn green?

Answer: The signal at the next intersection just turned red.

To Mitch:
Actually the Baltimore traffic timing was optimized back in the early '60s if I remember correctly, by a very gifted fellow whose name now escapes me. Since then, it's just drifted further and further out of whack. It's proved to be impossible for the city to actually set up traffic-flow corridors, even though I'm sure they have tried. As a side-note, I suspect you haven't lived here long - the correct answer to your question is that you know the light is about to turn green when the pedestrians who have been chatting on the corner decide to start sauntering across the street in front of you. It's an old Baltimore tradition which I suspect dates back to the earliest tribal inhabitants of the area, who were presumably noted for delaying war parties and seasonal migrations by deciding, just as the group was about to get underway, to block the path in front of them.

Maryland public transportation is horrible!

1. It makes no sense if you leave your house early to catch an early bus and end up getting to your destination at the same time you would have had you not caught the early bus.

2. If I spend $64.00 a month on a bus pass I expect to swipe it. I don't like when bus drivers just say, 'go head'.

3. Some male bus drivers need to focus on their job. I don't appreciate getting on the bus and having a male driver stare me down.

4. Does the state not have cleaning crews to clean up the buses after they are turned in for the day?

5. CAN SOMEONE AT THE MTA PLEASE CHANGE THE TIMETABLE FOR THE #77? WOULDN'T IT BE EASIER IF THAT BUS CAME EVERY 15 MINUTES INSTEAD OF 30? THAT BUS IS ALWAYS LATE AND WITH IT COMING EVERY 30 MINUTES IT'S ALWAYS CROWDED!

6. Why is it that during certain times of the day the #44 only goes to Rogers Station? It makes no sense to ride the #44 to Rogers station and then have to get off and wait for another #44!

7. Why is it that a later scheduled #40 will arrive 15-20 minutes before it's scheduled time while the one that should have arrived 10-15 minutes before comes after? I don't appreciate having to sit on the bus for 15-20 minutes while the one that is 10-20 minutes late shows up and pulls off without stopping.

I would like to know who the genius is that set the schedule for the southbound light rail that always stops around 9:00 AM at North Ave. and makes everyone wait while they consolidate the riders from 2 or 3 trains. Couldn't they do that after 10:00 AM when the majority of work-bound traffic has presumably slowed down? And what is with all of my fellow passengers who seem to think I'd love to listen to all their cellphone conversations, from the mundane to the offensive? So rude.

Drivers are so rude. If you don't want to deal with the public find another job.

You all might be interested in this blog: http://www.baltimorebybus.com/

The woman who runs the blog has some good insites and contacts at the MTA.

Hey guys we are doing they best job that we can out here. All of us are not rude and disrespectful. Please remember that accidents, weather, traffic congestion, road construction, detours, and bus breakdowns all contribute to on time performance. Many passengers could use a lesson or two in manners and respect as well. One way the public can help us to better maintain our schedules is to have your money and passes ready when you board the bus and not digging in your pockets and purses and talking on a cell phone at the same time!

Nothing is worse than waiting 20 minutes+ for a bus only to have it roll on by without stopping. Even more frustrating is when they stop and let 3 people off but won't let more on. The #10 line is completely unreliable in the morning and only for the truly desperate.

My solution is to challenge any one of those higher uppers in MTA to ride the bus (specifically the 15) for a few days. They will then see how it feels to wait 40-60mins for a bus, or for multiple buses to skip the stops. The bus is inefficient.

Turn your car in and pick up a bus pass. I think that will get them to think of solutions...people aren't motivated until it is them in the situation.

Oh now really folks, come on now. Any survery that would rank the MTA bus service at 2.8 has to be delusional! I ride the No. 11 bus from my house to Penn Station and back every day and I can tell you it is not a walk in the park. Not only are some of the bus drivers rude but they seem to go out of their way to make things as inconvenient as they possilby can without getting fired. It's useless to complain becasue I am still waiting for a response to a complaint I made in early December regarding the bus being early. Sometimes on the bus going home the buses are in horrible shape with trash and sticky floors. Also people routinley eat food when there are signs prohibiting that and the bus driver is oblivious. I have also noticed that in the 20 or so years that I have been riding the MTA buses things never seem to change even though the administration seems to change with the season. This is shameful for a city the size of Baltimore to have such lousy public transportation and I know that this will never improve because the people who could turn things around are not the ones that ride the MTA and I can't see that ever changing.

Stop Complaining, and buy a car then you will be in control of your own transportation.

Its time for the MTA to treat their schedules like their riders jobs are at stake... because they are!!!