(2 hours ago)Storx wrote Yeah no arguments on the 30 minutes and above, agreed a 25 minute service would be silly. 

But surely a 40/45 minute service which isn't clockwork is more important than an hourly service? 

Imo the extra service one it's this infrequent starts to counteract the clockface issues. The 56 in Durham for example to just pick one out which is kinda in the middle zone probably where 30 minutes is too much but hourly is really too little.

I don't know why you would deliberately do this? I think it's bad enough that times adjust during the school run on an afternoon, but at least I know why, and they generally do so with the same gap between services.

Whether you've got an app or not is irrelevant. Most people's thought process works in that they know a bus is due X, Y and Z past an hour. I know people who know railway services inside out, where there's much more open data available, but they still know the departure times - and because it's clock face, it's easy to remember.