It's definitely something that plays into how I ride the bus. My route has an express line that runs during peak hours and the same normal route, both get me to my destination within a few minutes of each other. The express route is people going downtown for work. The normal route goes through the rough areas and gets filled up with people hassling the driver for a free ride and people walking on with open beers at 8am and people openly drug dealing. It makes it pretty easy to decide which one to ride.