You wouldn't think it would be a huge problem for the TTC to decide where its buses should stop while servicing a given route, but in the case of the Scarborough Town Centre-Kennedy Station shuttle, you would be very wrong.

After work tonight, I thought I'd stretch my legs and walk down McCowan. There's a stop underneath the Scarborough Rapid Transit (SRT) where one can catch the shuttle to Kennedy.

If you aren't familiar with Scarberian public transit issues, the SRT shuts down at midnight and will continue to do so until November for some unspecified maintenance to be done.

Normally I'd catch the shuttle at the Town Centre bus depot, but as  I said, I walked.

Anyway, a shuttle bus comes roaring out of the dedicated laneway from the bus depot, hangs a right onto McCowan -- and almost proceeds to drive right by me as he heads south.

I flag him down. The driver stops and lets me on.

On the bus, he says: "Sir, I should tell you that isn't a proper stop for the shuttle."

Funny, another driver told me it was, I told him.

"Oh really? Well, I  was told this was an express bus," he said, and then laid out what his designated stops were.

One of them was the Lawrence East station -- but I'd only seen a TTC shuttle pull into Lawrence once.

This guy did, and then, when the bus got to Kennedy, he said with an embarrassed giggle that his supervisor just told him he shouldn't be going right to Lawrence East -- where no one got on.

Again, I'm not familiar with the intricacies of running a transit system that moves hundreds of thousands of people per day, but shouldn't there be some consensus as to where a bus on a particular route will stop?