In the cases where my bus is extremely late it is not heavy traffic (that might make it 5 min late) but rather construction or because they closed down the sect

In the cases where my bus is extremely late it is not heavy traffic (that might make it 5 min late) but rather construction or because they closed down the section of street where most bus routes start because the folks at https://ithacavoice.org/2025/08/inside-asteri/ https://ithacavoice.org/2025/08/inside-asteri/ tried to burn it down again. In both cases if you are traveling by car and tried to take the same route you'd also face extreme delays except traveling by car you are free to take a different route.