my take away is that if you're lucky enough to live in a place that has such a bus schedule, you can just ignore the schedule and show up whenever you want and only wait 10 minutes. sounds lovely!
Being able to track a bus via GPS works well like this. It doens't matter if the bus is 20 minutes late, if you can check that the bus is 4 minutes away.
A bit like usnig the metro. You don't know the schedule, you just know the realative time to the next train
30 minutes is the worst I will accept. I have better things to do than sit outside a locked door for an hour waiting for the person with the key to arrive. I want every 5 mintes but I will be able to deal with up to half hour. More than that and I guess I must drive.