Alright, since we can use proper names I’ll give ya a hint…they’re big square boxes on wheels that hundreds of people ride on everyday and one rider in particular uses the phone numbers quite regularly to check when the next public transportation vehicle is to arrive. However, this one particular individual is getting kinda pissed! Who looks after that fucking phone thing anyway? Apparently nobody! Today is a prime example….”The next bus on route 52 will depart in 7 minutes”…Wait….freeze…wait…13 minutes later…”The next bus on route 52 will depart in 7 minutes”…really??…ok…freeze…wait…12 minutes later…”The next bus on route 52 will depart in 7 minutes”…no shit?….Freeze…light up a smoke…oops…here comes the public transportation vehicle now….and it’s only been 2 minutes since the last call!…….Many more examples to be had here…”The next bus on route 21 will depart in 24 minutes”..ok..I’m cold…going in to the store to get a coffe while I wait….hold on .. what’s that sound…it’s….yeah…the 21… going right by my stop……Can we possibly get this fancy little gizmo working right?…I mean, I can be in a hotel in Toronto and start my car on the side of the road in New Delhi….but I can’t pin point when the next bus is coming??…wtf?? —Grabbin’ Myself a Toupee, Cause I’m Losin’ My Hair
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.
OB, how’s that cold, dry wind treating you at that bus stop? I simply have to look out my livingroom window in the morning, press start on the car starter, and voila, a few minutes lately a warm car. I know the windshield on my car is cold when I drive, and it’s nice and toasty warm inside the car where I sit behind the steering wheel.
Hope you enjoy the looming bus strike. No doubt this strike will convince more people to opt for a car instead of those “big square boxes on wheels”….although they do look more rectangular.
I just laughed out loud … but not in a nasty way and not at you OB.
Waiting for a bus sucks, especially in the winter … I’m happy it’s not been a a part of my life for many years. In weather like this when there are so many variables that can impact the amount of time required to drive from one stop to another … Metro Transit should just give up and not bother attempting to predict arrival time … flip a switch and have a system that indicates the time the bus left the last stop.
Back to the chuckle … that was all about you Sebas … would everyone in the city just buy a fucking car already. Geesh!
If you are a smoker, you should know that the only sure way for a bus to arrive is for you to light a cigarette. Works every time. Cosmic Karma.
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a few minutes lately a warm car
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You’ll have to forgive Sebastian, and his poor grammar/spelling as of late, Bitches.
He and I met, and I worked him like a marionette trombone. Scrambled his brains.
How many would agree that our transit system or lack thereof is one of, if not the biggest thing holding this city back in terms of fulfilling its potential?
perhaps seb has ham sized hands like you wp, makes typing difficult^^
Don’t worry there won’t be buses next week anyways. Guess i’m leaving at 5am to walk to work on time.
Don’t lie Tommy….you love our transit system.
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I notice many of the folks waiting for the people carrier are smokers ……. ya know, if ya quit you could afford a car payment. Hmmm, can a study be done as to the percentage of trans-ass riders who smoke?
No muss, no fuss, and my car warms my ass!
Koda … unless every smoker seen waiting for the bus is a heavy smoker, I fail to see how the combined savings of being a non-smoker and non-passenger would come close to covering a car payment, insurance, registration, gas and repairs/maintenance.
TRANSIT STRIKE FTW!
I for one, will be LOLing if there’s a transit strike for one reason and one reason only: it’ll increase cars on the road and sebastard’ll have to haul his two-sizes-too-big asshole out in his 92 suburban as early as those of us who take the bus and then sit in traffic.
If you smoke a pack a day or every 2 days, the payment, maybe Koda. Not the insurance gas and maintenance.
That one was actually kind of funny, Zilla. However I loathe Metro Transit.
I haven’t been busing it that much lately and it’s been soooooo nice.
I could at least TOLERATE metro transit until recently. My patience is running so thin with the bus right now… A 20 minute drive turns into an hour bus ride, the people on the bus tend to be annoying, and I don’t have to go outside and get wet or cold on crappy days — I just take the elevator right down to my underground parking and voila.
i guess im one of the few left that is still sticking it out with metro transit. A transit strike would suck so much for me just when i finally got a new route the #90 that takes me directly to work. I just don’t want to buy a car my girlfriend has one its an expense that i don’t need if our transit system actually runs.
GoTime sucks. Always has.
aside from the usual rant on ‘WHY THE FUCK HASN’T THE GPS SYSTEM BEEN PUSHED OUT YET”….. it’s only been how many years? 6 now?
c’mon… they can stick gps in fucking cats and dogs to track them…
really now.
your poll would be skewed by all the permutations… take for example someone who
1. owns a car but works where a bus pass is cheaper than a parking spot… therefor
2. takes the bus regularly… and
3. smokes on occasion. a pack a month or so.
and I’m likely just gonna work from home if this shit happens.
Question is… when should I buy the bus pass?
the 1st when I’ll need it… or the 3rd when I’ll know if I can even USE it.
Do we get refunds if we buy a pass and they do end up striking??
A-Fucking-Men to that Brother Thomas. Here’s my dsytopian alternate universe vision. Green party gets elected. Declares public transit an essential service. Takes away their right to strike. Suck on that you 99 percenters.
I wonder how much dough they threw away on those schedule screens…you know, the dead ones…like at Scotia Square, the Bridge Terminal, and Mumford … I don’t know if there are any others. They were so helpful scrolling along at the speed of a snail with arthritis…the fucking TV guide channel goes faster than that, but no one’s in a hurry watching TV! Seriously though, what was up with that.
And those buttons you can press down on Lower Water St. that claim to tell you when the buses will arrive. Have those ever worked?? Argh.
i remember the last strike in 1998, but it was warm. i witnessed some very interesting human interaction, really good and really bad
Gotime? It’s “Go Time”. Remember the Mandlebaums from Seinfeld?
I do not believe Metro Transit is holding the city back,Thomas Leger. Why is your handle tommyjules? After former gg Jules Leger? Just curious. I digress. The city’s problem’s start from the top, MT is more a symptom than a cause.
*If* there’s a strike, I might walk to work. Or I could work from home as well. The 2nd option actually sounds a lot better due to the general shittiness of this time of year.
Cheese and rice WORK FROM HOME.
I have my strike contingency plan in place. I’m all set and ready to go.
ALSO: strike date is my birthday. LOLZ.
The last transit strike I’ve heard of was in ottawa in 2008, I believe? Lasted a while, but the city pulled through. ANd they have more riders in like an hour during rush hour than metro transit has all day. Public transit isn’t just fo’ the po’ up there.
during the last strike, the amount of roller bladers was staggering. some of them were good, most were the arm windmilling kind
I actually completely forgot that I could work from home until z3 mentioned it. >.>