Insanity 6

Besides riding routes 422, 424 and 425 multiple times every week, I've done a bit of actual gunzelling in the month it's been since I last updated this:

• Routes 318 and 897 are done.
• I've now been to Nagambie, Mooroopna and Shepparton stations, and have also done Mooroopna routes 1 and 3.

Route 897 is strange. It's short, and doesn't really go anywhere or serve anything except some houses and a train station. It doesn't run particularly frequently, and only runs on weekdays. It doesn't even come close to meeting the government's minimum bus standards. Other, more frequent routes (789/790/791) are within a short walking distance of the vast majority of the route. However, with a couple of exceptions, it has good connections to and from trains.

I wasn't expecting it to be particularly busy given the vast majority of Cranbourne residents drive everywhere, even though I was riding it in the morning peak at 8am. Needless to say, I was surprised when it ended up arriving at Cranbourne station with over 50 pax, a significant portion (about half) of whom weren't school students, and who boarded the 8:10am City Loop train, though possibly only going as far as Dandenong or Springvale. I wonder, did those pax use it because they had no other choice, or because it was simply convenient and/or cheaper? The mind boggles.