I've been living in Tallinn for 28 years. And this post nails it. Are you living in Tallinn too? Because what you described is exactly the reason. Most routes haven't changed since the soviet days, and if they have, it's usually marginal (couple of stops less, or more).
Another weird thing is that the roads here are terrible and yet there's no reduction in car traffic. The amount of cars on the road actually is constantly increasing. And I kid you not, but every time I visit some other (foreign) city, the public transport drivers are more careful and they don't make yanking motions with the cars. The whole public transportation etiquette is different. People here tend to sit so they take up 2 spaces or they don't sit at all. And the buses are really small and have lots of bottlenecks.
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I've been living in Tallinn for 28 years. And this post nails it. Are you living in Tallinn too? Because what you described is exactly the reason. Most routes haven't changed since the soviet days, and if they have, it's usually marginal (couple of stops less, or more). Another weird thing is that the roads here are terrible and yet there's no reduction in car traffic. The amount of cars on the road actually is constantly increasing. And I kid you not, but every time I visit some other (foreign) city, the public transport drivers are more careful and they don't make yanking motions with the cars. The whole public transportation etiquette is different. People here tend to sit so they take up 2 spaces or they don't sit at all. And the buses are really small and have lots of bottlenecks.