I think it's really time for 291 to cut some buses. With 18
covering the east loop and 46/298 covering the west loop (to some
extent), there's really no need for 291 to keep so many buses with
frequent bunching.
However, 298 is at concourse int where people lazy to walk there
and 46 peak hr freq is quite bad. Tamp int to its looping point
there demand is very high usually full to the max and always got
snaking queue. even though 298 is being intro, 69,291 and 293
demand quite high and still very full, 298 freq now is about 10 -12
mins per bus. whereas 291 and 293 freq is about 2 -5 mins which ppl
prefer the most. 18 freq also around 10 mins per bus.