To a certain girl who keeps clogging up a certain transit companies twitter feed complaining about your bus being late at 5:30pm on weekdays! STOP please for the love of god, do you not understand this thing called traffic, buses do not fly over traffic, they get stuck in it just the same as a passenger vehicles do. Its called rush hour for a reason! —Tired of scrolling
This article appears in Jun 6-12, 2013.
Have you posted this on the twitter feed? Oh shit! That would be bad, they might actually read it there.
Maybe the people making these schedules should factor in the rush hour when making the schedules.
You can’t really account for all the given scenarios that are going to cripple traffic and when they are going to happen…
It could be better but unless we get a subway or monorail set up, we’re going to have to deal with the fact that it only takes one idiot to slow everyone down.
Side note, it’s getting weirder lately…
I’ve caught buses that I wasn’t sure if they were early for their route…
or actually just that late.
Yeah but if it’s every day surely it’s somewhat predictable. It just seems like they set their riders up for dissapointment.
Old cities like Halifax haven’t had any real urban planning done in how the streets are set up. There isn’t anything anyone can do. Ottawa has special bus streets but they also have the space for that. We are crammed against the harbour and all the road space is already dedicated.
Eh. I’ve never noticed my buses being more than 5 minutes late or so during rush hour (going home). *shrug*
It was pretty bad for a while, though. I’d wait forever for my bus and in the meantime see 20 goddamned 84s pass me by. To this day I want to hit something when I see an 84 because of all the PTSD it brings on. 😛
Road redesign is the way to go. We have incredibly outdated infrastructure and city planning in HRM. Multi-Tier road construction is where it’s at, especially downtown and throughout the peninsula. This allows for Pedestrian/Cyclist routs and green space along the top, motor vehicle traffic at mid levels and either parking or public transit along the bottom tiers. Another benefit would be the ability to adapt these roads to also act as conduits for utilities like sewer and water. This style of roads keeps people and cars separated, and also shelters the cars during poor weather conditions while almost eliminating the need for snow removal.
Unfortunately, HRM cannot support a subway system because of the large amount of bedrock close to the surface, as well as the amount of hills. Rail lines have a maximum slope that they can traverse, meaning they can’t angle up and down dramatically. A monorail is more achievable, although it would require an incredible amount of engineering and city planning.
To implement these systems would be costly, but the benefits of setting up a city or town in this manner far outweigh any cost, I believe.
Pretty Kitty
So I guess you must have heard;)
LOL @ Keg.