The quickest route: Walk or wait

MANY people will have waited and waited for a bus only to give up and decide to walk instead, thinking it was the better option.

But mathematicians have proved the laziest choice when picking between the bus or going on foot is almost always the quickest route to your destination.

In only extreme cases where buses are running extremely late and the end location is very near will their formula fail, according to an article in the New Scientist.