To the driver of the #18 bus yesterday, thanks. Thank you so much for your “It’s the end of the line,” goodbye. It was pretty obvious I had no idea that this bus does not make a loop like a normal run. Forgive me for thinking that the bus I took to someplace would also be the bus I would take to get home. Thanks for kicking me off and jetting away. In the future it might be nice to say, “Hey, it’s the end of the line, where were you trying to go?” and then suggesting a bus to take. Instead I had to scrounge more bus fare because my transfer had expired and talk to each bus driver that stopped until I found a route that would take me someplace recognizable so I could walk home. It took me two hours. Awesome. Just fucking Awesome. —New and Unimpressed
This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2011.
I’m pretty sure the local car dealerships set all the metro transit routes. It is obviously designed to fail. Again, welcome to the dead zone.
While I can sympathize with the OP regarding how they were treated AND the fact that the Metro Transhit system in this city sucks ass, (still trying to figure out why they have a #60 Heritage Hills and a #60 E. Passage…same route essentially until you get to the Pass-auge then they are completely different. GIVE THEM DIFFERENT FUCKING NUMBERS!!! Anyway..I digress), what I can’t sympahize with is the fact that Metro Transit has a website with full colour maps of every one of it’s routes along with timetables and other useful info. Also, you can get hard copies of said maps/timetables just about anywhere in HRM. If you are new here or to the bus system, then it behooves you (love that word) to do a little research BEFORE you have to use the bus, and determine which one you have to take to get you where you need to go and back. It’s YOUR responsibility, not Metro Transit’s. Common-fucking-dog, OP. While I agree this driver perhaps could have been a little more helpful to you, ultimately, by him telling you that it was the end of the line, he performed all that was expected from him. Like I said, I think the bus system in this city is the shits but, it’s all we have at the moment.
love that word too
Mmmk — I’m just wondering — do you mean yesterday as in sunday? Because this bitch doesn’t make sense. The 18 always loops around on Sundays when it gets to SMU and in fact, there is no “end of the line” for the 18 on Sundays until the very last run because it turns into the 21 when it gets to lacewood.
So either you were on the bus at the end of the day or… well I don’t really know what.
And if ‘yesterday’ was a weekday…. then yeah, it doesn’t loop on certain trips, but I”m pretty sure it has a “saint mary’s only” in the sign (at least the 17 does when it’s only going to smu). If that was the case you can always wait for the next bus. I mean…. if it’s a weekday and your transfer’s expired, then I’m guessing you’re attempting to use it for your trip to and from which is fine, but that’s not what they’re designed for.
I mean, MAYBE the driver could’ve been a bit nicer, but you could’ve asked what bus you should get on and another 18 comes fairly regularly anyway.
Maybe you should get a bus schedule and make sure you have enough change for two trips and stop relying on transfers for both trips?
And if this was lacewood that you got the boot…. well then… you’re just an idiot. You *always* get kicked off when you get to lacewood, unless it’s a sunday and you want the 21.
“Flabbergast” and “Gobsmacked” are good ones too PG, AND they essentially mean the same thing. Bonus!
I swear… other than our resident driver, kitty’s one of the few people who even start to comprehend the buses around these parts.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_CqtZ6YfaifQ/SfdnJzwI…
And don’t think I’m not ashamed of that fact, zed.
I miss the carefree days of requiring a PhD to read a bus schedule/map (ottawa. 2006). You just show up at a stop and a bus would come along sooner or later. I’ begining to think that’s the way to go with metro transit these days.
And now that we’re on summer hours at work my whole schedule’s thrown off. Back to the grimey 21. *lesigh* 🙁 Ah well, at least it’s a super earlier one.
i’m reminded of “lost in translation” flummoxed is a good word too, dirty harry
Similar thing happened to me. I was recovering from a cracked vertebra with associated nerve damage and learning how to walk again. I was returning from a medical visit, walking very slowly & painfully with the aid of a cane. I was exhausted and stopped a bus for the rest of the trip home. The bus had gone four blocks down the street when the driver said,”End of the line”. He kicked me off the bus, turned the bus around, then drove off the way we had just come. Turns out that I got on the bus on the wrong side of the street. Walking those four blocks back to where I’d started took nearly an hour. Then, I was able to catch the bus going in the correct direction.
Granted, I did make an error when I accessed the bus on the wrong side of the street, heading in the wrong direction. However, some people need a boot in the bum. I count that soulless bus driver amongst their number.
… how ‘super earlier’?
odds are not as ‘super early’ as mine.
I’m always up at the butt-crack of dawn
“I’m pretty sure the local car dealerships set all the metro transit routes.”
Wrong!
I can gurantee, that even with my 8:10am 33, I’m up earlier than you are. 🙁
And no, I won’t be on your morning bus. The work day didn’t get any earlier, it just ends earlier. Ahh the joys of working in a union.
When I say earlier, I meant earlier going home so I may be on your going-home route who knows. Though, I might start taking the 21 TO work, but it’d be like at least an hour and a half after your route.
they do put out booklets you know, to tell you what bus goes where. most buses have at least one on it.how about asking someone next time.
I said it once to you PK, and I’ll say it again. Come drive for us. Seriously.
One thing I will add is that if you don’t know where you’re going, or even just not sure, don’t be afraid to ask the driver. We may bark, but we don’t bite (yet).
LOL….these stories from the loser cruiser just continue on and on and on. When will people learn?
so PDG, how do we go about requesting they remodel the buses ’round this biatch?
they could use it….
http://www.societydog.com/images/interior.…
Pfft, you don’t even bark, PDG! Not even when people are piling on the bus while others are trying to get off. 🙂
You are a very nice bus driver!
PS: I couldn’t be a bus driver. I’d end up physically assaulting one of the little punks that get on the bus. Then I’d end up in jailz. 🙁
Not to mention your feetz wouldn’t reach the pedals!
But you would make an adorable lil driver, PK.
Loves ya!
AHHA it’s true, they wouldn’t!!! <3
Loves ya too! 🙂
I need a wheelie fix — coffee/lunch/breakfast/whatever soon, k?