I'm kind of interested in how bus routes take shape. A lot of them don't seem to make much sense, and I'm curious how they got their irregularities.
I'm not interested enough to actually do any research about it, though, so not sure if that counts.
True Story: about half a dozen times within a three year period, I called the KCMO bus folks and said that I needed a new bus stop at certain locations, or bus stops moved blocks away from an existing location. Every single time, they just did it without checking to see I was who I said I was or whether the project I was working on even existed or not. No paper work, no permit, no fee, etc. Just, "no problem", then a couple weeks later, boom. new bus stop/moved bus stop.
Given that, it's probably good you don't spend much time trying to analyze it.