AATA Route 5 student move-in detour details

The AATA's #5 route is detoured during student move-in. When I rode the bus yesterday, a number of people were visibly upset at bus stops because their bus had not come for an hour. Today's bus took a different detour than yesterday's. I plotted everything I could find, and marked the nearest good stop that was reachable by all of the various detour routes that are plausible.

This contradicts the posted information, which says

Route 5 Packard To Ann Arbor: Regular route on Packard to State to William to Fourth to the Blake Transit Center. There will be no service on Thompson Street.

To Ypsilanti or Meijer: Regular route from the Blake Transit Center to William and Thompson, continuing on William to State to Packard to resume regular route. There will be no service on Thompson Street.

I don't know if the Packard detour was a planned detour from the detour (traffic was mighty bad) or a rogue driver, but I can easily imagine first-time new transit riders being angry and upset.

UPDATE:

Dear Edward Vielmetti:

That was an error on our part and we apologize for the mistake.

Sincerely,
The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority

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Comments

[Spencer]

The bus stop in front of Jimmy John's now has a "route is detoured" sign:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/swthomas/1289558291/