Why are there no Metro Transit buses that go to the beaches in HRM? Black Rock Beach is a former cesspool. Chocolate Lake has sand that smells like piss. What about all the people who would like to go to Crystal Crescent Beach, Clam Harbour, Rainbow Haven, etc? How are we supposed to get there? We don’t have cars. Why must we suffer while everyone else enjoys the sun and sand. —Sea is calling
This article appears in Aug 18-24, 2011.
If you want to get to the beaches, buy a car, or find a friend with a car and give them gas money. Otherwise, enjoy those public bathing cesspools where the poor people go to wash and kids piss. Thursday was a great day at the ocean beach 🙂
sorry op, but there is this http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/1259079…
Former Cesspool? Anyway they are not going to make a special bus route to go somewhere that people will only go to 3 or 4 months out of the year. I think a bus route to the airport is needed more than one to a beach, just my opinion.
There is a shuttle service that goes to Lawrencetown, Rainbow Haven, or Conrad’s as well as anywhere else you fancy. Check it out on Kijiji……
Maybe you should you know, get a car. Those of us who drive earned the privilege to do so, thus the privilege to go to the beach without issue.
I have actually heard bus routes to the beaches have been held back on because they don’t want huge numbers of the riff raff going out to them and crowding up the beaches. Not being rude, Im actually serious.
Get a job.
Use your fucking thumb.
First World Problems
+1 to B***, Please!
Go the fuck to the lake and suck it up. Baggers can’t be choosers
if it’s not on a route map, it don’t go there. that said, find a friend with a car to take you, in they don’t work either, that is.
Yeah, sucks that even in Toronto you can take transit to several beach areas. Let alone many other cities. Meanwhile here on the Atlantic coast – nada. A few years back you could get to Queensland via MacKenzie’s bus service, but now long gone. Just another reason why Halifax – in fact Nova Scotia – is rather a joke as far as public transport goes. All very easy to say ‘buy a car’, but meanwhile governments allegedly try to get us not to use cars, but do not provide services. Hypocrites. Then again the small population base does not really make it feasible.
I’m just back from taking my dog for a swim at the Bedford waterfront. Now I’m going to jump into my car and go to the beach =)
A nice private beach, where 99% of the people clean up their mess, all the children are well behaved, no loud obnoxious music, you can have a discreet beer & spiff and no one will complain.
Original Beach, why do you stink so much?
Lake Banook, Albro Lake (bring an Uzi), Lake MicMac I think, Morris Lake… all right smack dab on bus routes.
I wonder if metro transit would lemmie take a beach sun lounger on da bus?
Bring an Uzi…Priceless!
an uzi and beach umbrella would be just the ticket
Not to be a dick, but there’s a reason all the beaches on bus routes smell like piss.
Hmm, for all you little jerks, who think people who take the bus shouldn’t get to go to your pristine beaches, I have an fully loaded black leather Lexus RX350 AWD suv, which is paid for, which is likely worth more than most of these posters cars, You disgust me, your either spoiled entitled yuppy scum or new money, Get over yourselves, my step mothers son is a Nuclear Physicist, and he rides the bus! My step mother has a late model ford convertible in the garage of her luxury condo and she rides the bus everyday, Your pretentious attitudes reek of new money and spoiled brats who don’t like to share, never did grow up did you? The Beaches are for everyone, I for one don’t judge people on their social status, how much money they make or what kind of car they drive or the house they live in, Most of the people riding the bus are nice normal people, if you check the park and ride you can see many nice late model beautiful cars in there, See these are the people who pay with cash or debit for their big screen televisions and marble counter tops, You think your superior to them? HA HA HAA,
A lot of people in my building, which is a pretty nice building, have cars but take the bus to work. One guy owns a beamer, but takes the bus to work.
And there are a lot of people who don’t drive for a variety of reasons. My uncle had a mini stroke a few years back and had to give up his license. If you didn’t know otherwise, you’d think he was fully functional, but he just doesn’t have quick enough reaction skills to be able to drive. Before he gave up his license, he had one bitchin’ ride. He takes the bus now. An aunt on the other side of my family never bothered to get her license either because she didn’t have to. Her husband has two harleys and drives an imported SUV. And what about those who are disabled and unable to drive (I know for certain, the visually impaired usually can’t get licensed! :P).
So, Calico does make a good point — just because you take the bus, doesn’t mean you’re trash. I take the bus and I even have an offer from my dad of a purchase of a car for me if I actually go and renew my license, but eh. $70 a month is a lot cheaper than paying for an extra parking spot in my building, insurance, registration, gas, proper maintenance, etc… just to go places I could easily go on the bus. I mean, parking downtown is a nightmare, and I’d end up walking just as much, if not more after I did find a spot, so what’s the point? Probably cost way more than $4.50 in gas to go downtown and back and park too. If I still lived in buttfuck, sure, I’d probably pick up driving again, but in HRM there’s really no incentive. Not when I can either take the bus or walk to any place I need to. Frig, it’s not even a five minute walk to BLIP for me!
Dear OB…there is a brand new beach being built for you right in the middle of the Halifax water front…hurry down & enjoy it, before all the cats that are running loose in Halifax turn it into the worlds largest kitty litter box !
i linked from the horrid mr. more, and that’s what i thought too. always cover your kid’s sandbox http://cdn.babble.com/family-style/files/2…
That’s just a bunch of sand! There’s no “water”! (well, no water *I* want to go swimmin’ in!).
Cheap excuse for a beach ffs.
Water + waves + sand = beach.
sand /= beach.
grr!
i’m happy with just the water… off the side of a vessel. salty bodies only
“I for one don’t judge people on their social status, how much money they make or what kind of car they drive or the house they live in”
Uh-huh….which is why you went on to type the following, right:
“I have an fully loaded black leather Lexus RX350 AWD suv, which is paid for, which is likely worth more than most of these posters cars. You disgust me, your either spoiled entitled yuppy scum or new money…”
and:
“Your pretentious attitudes reek of new money and spoiled brats who don’t like to share, never did grow up did you?”
Oh, and:
“See these are the people who pay with cash or debit for their big screen televisions and marble counter tops, You think your superior to them? HA HA HAA”
But, YOU don’t judge, huh? Your entire post is one big contradiction. (That’s where you bitch about people doing something and then try to back up your argument by doing the same thing you’re bitching about in the first place. I thought I would define that for you in case you didn’t know….but, I’m not judging)
Use CarShare.
oh and it’s “you’re superior” not “your superior”
that’s MY bitch
we’re renting a pickup truck for the day…yeehaw http://www.1000funnypictures.com/photos/Fu…
It would be great if there was a seasonal, hourly, bus route that frequented the beaches – one on the Dartmouth side, one on the Halifax side.
I loved how in New York I could take the D, F, N or Q all the way to the beach. On the fucking subway! lol. But yeah, everyone should just own cars instead. Dickwads!
http://www.halifax.ca/metrotransit/Schedul…
This is a ‘bicycle capable’ service. Get off at Mishoos and bike the remaining 3km to Crystal Crescent. Myself, I can bike there from the rotary in under 45 minutes…
Oh crapola, “No Service Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays.”
Yay Halifax.
Kearney Lake is only a 5 minute or less walk from the last bus stop on the Kearney Lake Road.. my daughter’s babysitter takes the kids there all the time and they walk it. I’m sure if a handfull of 3, 4 & 5 year olds can walk to the Beach, you can OP.
Assuming they are going to a lake and not the ocean, thanks HaliA, very helpful.
Because metro transit is run by people who don’t use the system.
I have to agree with m_kegg’s thought that I think an active, 7 day a week bus route to the airport is a bigger priority than setting up routes to take you to the beach. Halifax is the only urban centre with an established transit system that I know of that does not have regular service to the airport. I mean FFS, even Charlottetown, P.E.I. runs a bus to their airport. Instead, unless you have somebody dropping you off/picking you up or you used the park and fly service, you have to taxi it. (Stupid expensive). To me, it’s just another classic example of HRM city council claiming an area as part of their responsibility but only when it benefits their needs. When I lived in Lawrencetown, my property was considered being within the limits of HRM. As such, I had to pay the same tax rate as someone living in downtown Halifax, (assessment was lower), but for what? What was I paying for? At the time, my street was not paved, (paved as of 2006), there were no curbs or sidewalks, (still none), no storm sewers, policing was done by the RCMP, our fire service was 100% volunteer, nearest hospital was Dartmouth General, no bus service and both garbage and snow removal was contracted out. All the benefits of a tax base but only a fraction of the infrastructure and related services. If a service like the airport falls under HRM jurisdiction then they should be damn well making it accessible to everyone. IMO.
Why can’t we have both Avast? When did it turn into a one or another discussion? lol