Don’t get us wrong. DCist likes the bus. We ride it everyday. And we appreciate all that Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority does to get us around town. But we have to wonder whether WMATA realizes that when it tries to do good, it can create more problems for commuters.

A case in point: Yesterday, DCist was waiting for a 90/92 bus at the corner of Calvert Street and Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park. We found that the bus schedule for the 90/92 bus had been replaced with a bilingual schedule (shown here via DCist’s camera phone) for the 98/Adams Morgan-U Street Link bus, the shuttle bus that says on all the bus stops along the route that it comes every 15 minutes. While we think having signs in English and Spanish is a good move, it would make more sense to have the bilingual schedule for the 90/92 bus.

That bus sometimes only comes twice an hour and it would help DCist and many others to know when the bus is supposed to come. In short, it makes more sense to have a schedule for the long crosstown bus that comes at odd times, than the short-haul shuttle route that arrives at a more reliable interval.

(When our bus did come to take us to the terminal stop at McLean Gardens, it was a 92 bus and it mistakenly said it was bound for Congress Heights.)

So what can you do when you are waiting for the bus in Woodley Park?