This is a bitch for all the single-car motorists in Halifax.
Each day, the city is congested with your “necessity” luxuries that endanger the lives of cyclists and pedestrians hourly. Then, most of you drivers bitch about the BP oil spill. How does that make any sense? You over-rely on the very thing you’re devastated about… IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Anyone who lives as near as Bedford (including as far as Cole Harbour), and is so saddened by the irreversible ecological and social destruction caused by the oil spill, get your fat asses out of your cars and onto the bus, or bike seat, or use those things hanging off the bottom of your legs, for christsake. THEN you can cry about the oil spill in – at least – a logical way.
If you’re too nervous about biking in the city, call your Councilor and let them know your needs. Same goes for bus services. Reduce your intake and dependence on oil before you cry about the oil spill. —Celebrating bike week
This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2010.
Sorry, I couldn’t hear what you were saying over the roar of my Hummer – repeat please?
nice tag!
Nice tag, ps!
I don’t own a car or have a license, that’s my contribution
So…..I suppose I’m to take my daughter on the back of my bike in rush hour traffic eh?
Or I’m suppose to be able to get her to daycare, which only opens at 7:30, and then get to my job on time, and then leave my job to get back to pick her up before 5:30.
No problem, I’ll just start working four hour shifts everyday instead of eight. Who needs to be able to eat anyway, eating’s for pansy’s.
hmm, given the choice between food and shelter….
just call me the satiety street dweller.
then there’s always living out of your car…
100 bucks a month gets you rent in a parking garage in prime space downtown!
I’m sorry, I didnt realize as a daily motorist who needs to drive his ass to work every day, that it was illogical for me to feel bad about the massive disaster down in the gulf. I’ll continue to drive when and where I want, and continue to shake my head at the situation down south…MY thoughts are no more or less “logical” about the situation than yours just because my bike or a bus isnt my primary source of transportation.
you know, just maybe that i don’t want some stinky ass bitch or creep in my fucking car. i don’t smoke in my car, when i have it on the road, and that’s only for a few months in a year. my lincoln in in factory shape and smells just like it did when i bought it new. there has never been a day it has seen rain, snow or any bad weather.and smoke, no fucking way. this car costs me 0 dollars in parts per year to safety, and the only thing i pay for is license and insurance.i only put enough gas in to get where i want to be, and drain it out when i put it back away, for another lousy winter. it sits in a heated garage, along with 2 other collector cars i have. do i mind blowing my cash that way, nope, it’s my cash, and when everything is said and done, my car will be worth more than it was new. that was 34 grand, without everything, but i got everything, and the tag was over 45 grand. so, if you wanna bitch about cars and drivers, there you go. but remember one thing, this is not a commuter car. to those that whine about drivers cutting them off etc., maybe you are to blame also, it takes two, to make an accident.
To be fair, the oil that is now floating around the gulf wouldn’t be heading to Canada. So, yes, those drivers have every right to complain.
This guy sounds like the guy the city employed for that miserable commercial they’ve got for Bike Week, who makes it sound like cycling cured his cancer, his herpes and his AIDS all after a week of biking to work.
And as “near as Bedford (including as far as Cole Harbour)”? That can be nearly an hour each way, if you ride at a fairly good pace, and you don’t live in some of the deeper subdivisions. But hey, if we all rode to work, we’d be Lance Fuckin-Armstrong wouldn’t we?
I just love self-righteous cyclists.
screw bike week, screw cyclists and screw you OP. You need to spend less time in the pulpit and more time in reality.
that’s the thing while I think biking is a good thing like most activist types they have a special talent at pissing the average joe off with their sanctimonious tudes
LS, forgot about safeties and plate tags that you pay for as well…
but still.
I bet you don’t even like to fart in your car…. unless the windows already down eh?
Gas prices may increase by a cent tonight….might. Be sure to fill up. I think I can get 65 litres in my SUV 🙂
So by your logic, OP, I should strap my hub-unit to his walker and make him roll to work from Hillbilly Hollow near Prospect Bay to downtown Halifax – you are a silly little twit who doesn’t seem to understand that not everyone can jump on a bike.
You can always tell when it’s bike week; a big cloud of smug rolls in and settles over the HRM.
Yeah that’s plagiarized from folks who are smarter than I am, and NO I don’t give toss.
well, i think you’re just as funny and smart
BP = Big Polluter – BP = Bike Pisseroffer – BP = Bald Pate – BP = Brainless Politician – BP = Bald P***y
over to you……
It takes me 10-15 Minutes to get to work via car. If i decide to take the bus, I’m looking at almost 2 hours!!! Our bus system rots. That’s why I have my car
Thanks Pain, and I can always count on you to put me in touch with the better angels of my nature. Black angels, they are, and very clever. Rawk, Rawk.
i did metion that zzz man, and as to farting in car, no fucking way.and i keep my windows up with the a/c going, nice and cool/warm.
not even if it’s from a nice juicy medium-rare steak you had for supper the night before?
not even then?
If you’re driving, you really either 1. stop, evacuate vehicle, and then evacuate… gaseous buildup or
2. unbuckle, open the door a crack, and sidecheek it out to the world?
Hey op.. Ever try to walk from bedford to downtown and back in one day? I’d love to see that!
The only thing nicer than driving my fullsize 4×4 crewcab, is driving it all by myself.
I paid for it.
I pay for the gas.
you jealous yet ~;)
bp-british pathetic, bumbling peckers, byzantine pome, bloody pissants
If I had any money I would be loading up on BP stock right now: it’s a no brainer 🙂
I would normally say that unsolicited stock advice on is pretty sketchy, but martym, you’re bang on there. It just hit it’s 52 week low last week…
Edit: That’s supposed to read: “unsolicited stock advice on the web”. I gotta cut back on the espresso.
obviously you didn’t read my disclaimer: any opinions expressed here are by a dumbass who lost thousands and thousands of dollars on small and mid caps over the years 🙂
DISCLAIMERS are fun
BP – Bilious Ponce, Brigand’s Penis, Belching Pomade, Baldwinesque Pomposity, Braided Pubis….Oh my, this is fun >: )
nice, i had help with mine one from each of the boys at the shop
besides everybody loves pizza right ? Boston Pizza will be just fine :):):)
Martym— can’t be any worse than the money I lost in my RSPs that were mostly invested in real estate and equity funds. It was a real shit show for a year and a half.
boston pizza, that shite is gross…you win
Try taking the bus from Bedford to Halifax for your morning commute. I could walk the same distance faster. If HRM would grow some balls and put in bus only lanes maybe it would make sense.
For me to take a bus to work in the AM to work from my old place in Dartmouth, would take probably an hour and a half each way. For me to drive, it took 20-25 mins. I now live in the city and it takes me 8 minutes to get to work, so I’m polluting less. I once even walked home from work, it took me 50 mins as opposed to a 8 min drive!! I really only drive to work, and walk everywhere else and sometimes I take the bus to work from my new place because it’s close. So if you see me driving my car, don’t get all in a huff because you have no idea about anything.
And the how the hell would I be able to buy groceries or anything? I get a massive thing of kitty food and cat litter for the little guy, how the hell would I carry those around or lug it onto our spacious buses, or even balance it on a bike? You’re stupid, did you even think about anyone else’s needs before you wrote this piece of shit?
So mom’s in their full, gas guzzling minivans driving all over the city all day to drop of each kid and pick them up and shuttle them to practice are much better than people driving to work by themselves?
“…for all the single-car motorists…luxuries that endanger the lives of cyclists and pedestrians hourly.”
Huh? Are you saying that a vehicle with two or more people can’t collide with cyclists or pedestrians? Really?
I’ve never heard of statistics that make it obvious that a single occupant vehicle is more likely to have a collision.
OP, I love my bike (for excercise) and I do take the bus to work… but I don’t think a disaster on the part of a negligent company is the best way to threaten people into taking greener transit. And although carpooling is great, someone above mentioned daycare, and have you seen the bitches here about kids that scream on the bus?
absolutely love the tag!!
Let’s see, my job requires me to be all over HRM and sometimes the province. Sure I’ll break open a bike – NOT. OB stop assuming people in cars are wasting gas. Most of us use it sparingly and if not, so the fuck what. We pay for it, not you, so fuck off.
yea DOC you wanna bad investment off well here’s one: part owner Thoroughbred horse paid $ 8000 sold $1200 plus vet and feed bills 🙂
Lots of cities and towns in Europe (mostly Germany) have car restrictions: everyone bikes or walks. No cars allowed. Granted, it might be smaller areas than HRM, but what it takes is a commitment to a better lifestyle, which no one here seems to want to do.
Also, I get what the OP is saying, and what people are replying to is that the bus system sucks. The only way to have it improved is with greater use and people speaking up about it, which is what the OP said, actually. DEMAND = ACTION. If you don’t take the bus because of the long commute, the commute won’t improve if you don’t take the bus.
What a bunch of cranks.
Okay folks, non sanctimonious biker type here.
Its a practical choice for me, I use it to get to and from work. The trip is from the SMU neighborhood to Burnside. I do it rain or shine and it takes 25 mins, 30 mins with a headwind. I’ve been doing this for years. Its 12 kms there and back.
For many of the reasons that some commentors have pointed out, this is just not a practical choice for eveyone.
But. And.
I think that the type of people who fail, or refuse, to look deeper into a person’s motivation for either a) riding a bike or b) driving a car and just obsessively hate on either choice respectively are probably the type of people who shouldn’t operate a vehicle of any kind.
We’re all out there on the road together.
And OP, most buses run or gas genius. So don’t YOU complain about the oil spill either.
I will also add though, that biking keeps you trim and fit and rock hard. Driving, not so much.
I thought gas might increase by a cent, so I filled up last night. I was wrong….it went up by 1.8 cents 🙂
wow Seb… congrats!
now you can afford something from the dollar store!
pppppphhhhhhhttttttttt
Thank you Booer, that was quite good of you to post. I wish all cyclists were like that. However, 70% of the cycling community is comprised of self-righteous assholes like this one.
I’ve also made a decision: I’m taking it as a personal responsibility to make fixed-gear bikes illegal in this city. They’re more dangerous than ATVs on the road.
“70% of the cycling community is comprised of self-righteous assholes like this one.” Yes, and 98.5% of statistics used on internet forums are pulled out of thin air.
There are plenty of people who cycle in this city who aren’t riding fixies, who aren’t self-entitled jerks, who are just trying to get from Point A to Point B like everybody else. I see them all the time because I’m one of them and I’m out there everyday too. I ride safely and conscientiously, but despite this, I’ve had some terrifying near-death experiences at the hands of aggressive drivers who, it appeared, would love nothing more than to see me bloody and tangled in the wreckage of my bike at the side of road. Nevertheless, when I see a car on the road, I don’t assume the driver is a psycho asshole, so it would be nice if drivers would not assume all cyclists are brainless hipsters.
Now that I have that out of the way….This is a poorly thought out bitch, OP. Perhaps you don’t drive but I’d wager a bet that you’re reliant on petroleum products in numerous ways, some that you probably don’t even realize. In any case, why would you tell people they can’t be upset about the oil spill? I, for one, am glad to see this incident spurring so much agitation and discussion. It’s sad that something so tragic had to happen to bring it about, but at least it’s helping to solidify public and political opinion about oil corporations and our reliance on petroleum.
There’s a shock puss puss is anti-oil and condescendingly mentioning how us not as smart people wouldn’t know how much we really on the evil liquid. Eat shit and die!
At what point did I say I was anti-oil, martym? If you’ll brush up on your reading comprehension skills, you’ll see that my comments regarding reliance on petroleum products were directed at the OP. But nice attempt at trying to fit me into your little “left wing mainstream New World Order” box again, moron.
yeah ok so bare with us less learned morons for a moment there mensa beeatch; so you meant the BP incident would solidify public and political opinion in a pro oil corp slant; right than makes total sense sure why not ( must be that PC double-speak that I don’t quite grasp)
Bare with us morons. BEST POST EVER.
Yes, it’s true, martym, I’m not fond of oil corporations. How shockingly subversive of me, I know. However, at no point did I espouse any “anti-oil” rhetoric, so your simplistic assertions are baseless. Thanks for playing though.
YES! what do i win ? :):):)
I’d like to espouse a cyber bitch slap upside your head 🙂
For me to go from my home to the Metor Centre & return is 109 kilometers.
The last time I worked there it was a 8am Sunday morning call. We wrapped the show at 1:45 that night/next morning.
Could you OP in your infanite wisdom tell me exactly which bus I would get on out past Elmsdale that would get me there for 8 am ?
Are there any buses that could get me out of downtown Halifax & home at 2 am ?
I’ve got a rig going in Prospect this weekend…Can you tell me which buses will allow me to put all my gear (approximately a full pick up truck full) on the bus out here (sorry I’ve looked around) & for the life of me can’t find a fucking bus stop anywhere !!
Anyone else ever load a bunch of equipment into a bus…does the driver give you a hand ?
I would be happy to buy a monthly pass if I actually could pull that off , but somehow I’m doubtful !!!!
Here in reality…
O P -you are a moron, you for some unexplained reason are attempting to place all of us into model that suits your needs, & that’s just not going to work.
Poor martym, reduced to threats of ‘cyber-violence’. Who’s a funny little tough guy? Yes YOU are! Yes you are! 🙂
oh boy aren’t we clever and so so smart with the quips perhaps looks too perhaps ahh a triple threat beeatch from hell; I pity the poor bastard…… 🙂 gonna watch me some shit blow’n up now yep 🙂
Yup, I’m a total babe AND brainy to boot, because of course, there’s more to life than being really, really ridiculously good looking.
and modest omfg you go girl and blaze a trail of your ownself cross this land; look out world it’s supa beeatch yo 🙂
les printemps…love is in the air, look at all those smiley faces
Yes, PG, I think I’ve got martym rather twitterpated.
omfg you’re right; I think I got the George Costanza syndrome thing going with Ms. Mew there; She hates me so much I’m hypmotized by her imagined beauty; obvious superior mind and whimsical mirth making at my expense; umm you wanna drive to Galiano Island BC baby? We could watch the submarine races ummm i mean whales and you could learn me up some XXX OOO 🙂
I think Halifox10 really hit the mark. If we want a better public transit system, we need to be out there actually USING these services. You won’t get what you need unless you ask for it!
And obviously cycling isn’t practical in absolutely every situation. I myself cycle to work from Dartmouth and back every day, but sometimes when I need to transport heavy things, I take the bus (there are also some pretty rockin’ bike baskets out there). I also have a membership to Car Share for those times that I find I do actually need a vehicle. It’s like carpooling that is available 24-7.