Dear Bus bitchers,
I am growing weary of your ‘why aren’t you on time’ bitches. In my opinion, most of you are the kind of people that are consistantly late for work even when you have a vehicle.
Try leaving for work early enough that the ussual delays don’t make you late more than a few times each decade……yep, become more like your parents and their parents. —Justa Sayin
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2014.
So, if I understand you correctly, you believe that the Klingons were foolhardy in attacking the V’ger cloud without a greater tactical appreciation of the situation.
I concur.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbG3N51MEjM
Yes, that is Mark “Sarek” Lenard as the Klingon Commander
OB, I know the type. I call them the walking dead. They are so self absorbed they don’t engage themselves at work or on the way to work.
The folks on the people carrier time their commute by the stop closest to their work and will not leave their low-rent apartment 6 minutes earlier to arrive on time. Also note these are the over-weight and unhealthy food eaters of the office. Yup, we see them at the terminals and getting off the people carrier. Depressing to witness.
I go from one job directly to the other sometimes. I can’t “leave early”. I depend on the service I am paying into to keep its schedule so that I can be on time. I don’t think that’s much to ask.
Since the buses have such erratic schedules, and convoluted and redundant routes you often have to catch the bus a full hour earlier.
Which means either you wait in the cold or you show up at work 30 minutes early. Have you ever showed up at work before your shift and waited for it to start? Not fun. Most employers in my experience don’t want you any where near work if you aren’t on the clock.
I would guess most of these comments as well as the OP don’t actually ride the us, so they only think they know what they are talking about.
This raise a question. Why, why, why do so many of the buses go down the same road? Can’t we spread the service around? Barrington Street for example gets a lot of service, but Not Brunswick, not Quinpool. But a bigger problem is integrating suburban communities like the Eastern and South Shores, those folks pay HRM taxes and have large populations, but have terrible and infrequent (or completely absent on weekends) bus service.
We go on and on and on about becoming a real boy, er city, yet we can’t even act like a city. We act as well have always done, a large town with no creative way forward.
Rather than provide a valuable service and increase ridership, we build larger roads, attempt to cram more noisy, polluting autos onto the peninsula and marginalize cyclists, and impoverished suburbanites.
But hey! Fuck all that shit, let’s build a convention centre and a stadium no body needs.
Two examples come to mind.
Tantallon has rush hour only bus service which sucks horribly if you say, work at any other time, or want to get to Hali on off hours which includes weekends.
Musquodoboit Harbour is the next village centre after Porters Lake and gets NO BUS SERVICE. Despite the fact Mus. Harbour has the library, the police station, the rink and ball fields, hiking trails, shops, clinics, pharmacies, a community centre, gym, high school and the HRM office, the bus instead goes waaay down to Seaforth for no reason I see any sense in.
Just frickin sayin.
Yeah!
Yours truly.
zuke, there are entire workforces that are 1/2 hour early for work, every day. get over it.
Sure don’t miss the days of catching a 0720 bus for a 0900 shift and then getting home at 2000 after getting off work at 1800.
@ Great Value
you’re right a half hour before work is common if you ride the bus. You may have conveniently neglected everything else i wrote, but I think Cranky (just above this) sums up anything else i could add.
i used to live in langley (suburb of vancouver) but worked in vancouver. on sunday morning when i got off shift at 7am i could get a bus to skytrain station then wait til 9am before the first one started, then zip to the last stop and take another bus to get within 1 mile of home. or…..i could take a bus that would get me home in 2 hours.
decisions, decisions. so i bought a damn car. then i moved to within 5 blocks of work and doubled my rent. decisions, decisions.
The bus system needs to be privatized. Get rid of metro transit and their crap drivers. Step boldly into the future.