With fewer bus schedules to be found, you may be doing a lot more of this.As anyone who has spent time waiting at a bus stop knows, there are the published bus schedules and then there are the real bus schedules, and they often have very little to do with each other. Still, we rely on them, ever hopeful. And every few months Metro has stuffed its buses, and kiosks all over town, with new print schedules bearing a distinctive color.But if you don’t have a smartphone, you better upgrade soon, because this year King County Metro is cutting the number of print schedules by half.The change will save the fiscally strapped county $85,000 each time it publishes new schedules, according to Linda Thielke, spokesperson for the county DOT. The cut first took effect in February, coinciding with the latest services changes. Only about 2 million timetables were printed instead of the nearly 4 million published in February last year. Metro has also cut the number of places where you can pick up those timetables, Thielke says. That’s because the county, in another cost-cutting move, laid off two of the four staffers charged with putting the schedules in office buildings, libraries, and other public spots. For instance, downtown’s National Building, where SW has its offices, had a prominent display of bus schedules for at least 15 years. Now, there’s a bare wall.Perhaps this is only a harbinger of the eventual phasing out of printed schedules. Thielke says 7.8 million people last year got their information about Metro buses online. That appears to include virtually the entire SW staff, only one of whom could report what the current bus-schedule color is. (It’s kind of red-pink.)