Area Man Refuses To Accept Bus-Route Change

LUBBOCK, TX—After three years of catching the bus to work at the corner of 4th and Houston, area resident Willard Dawes refused to accept the Lubbock Area Transit System’s reworking of its weekday route, which had been clearly delineated in several flyers. “The C bus should’ve been here at 3:18,” Dawes said Monday, standing on the sidewalk in front of the MovieTime video store, two blocks east of the new pick-up point. “I know it will show up. I just have to wait longer.” The change is the most jarring event in Dawes’ LATS ridership since 1998, when a fender bender with a taxi seriously shook his faith in Chuck, the eight-to-four weekday driver.