I’m not going to bitch and complain about the bus strike… HOWEVER, my bitch does pertain to it. Since when did “Bus Parking Only” spaces open up to anything but a bus?? During this strike, I drive by 4 MAJOR transit hot spots… For the past 3 weeks I have noticed a large number of CARS, NOT BUSES parked along these areas, where it CLEARLY STATES BUSES ONLY!! Pretty sure since Metro Transit is on strike, these lots, terminals should be empty. No where does it say in the union contract, PARKING PROVIDED ON PICKET LINE. —Tired of HRM
This article appears in Feb 16-22, 2012.
i guess you missed the bulletin last week, about opening up the bus parks to regular folks while strike is ongoing. and also about using the shelters to store wood in or atv’s or what have you. anything goes lately.
Tell me about it…
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I’ve found myself having to resist the urge to throw a road flare into one of their stacks of pallet wood.
Why do I fell like that would be so much fun?
OB, I bet you’re the type that supports the parking ban in the winter when there’s not a flake of snow on the ground.
I hear you, Hugo. How fun would that be?
The thing I would like to know is: Where are they getting the pallets from? I’d love to have some for my campfire this summer.
g.v., check out kijiji, they always have them on there to give away.i could have had about 200 this past week. there was a place somewhere in spryfield that had a bunch on there, 2 days ago. hope that helps out.
Here’s another gem regarding cyclist scum:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/…
If this poor lady dies, I wonder if Lance Arsebrain can be charged with vehicular manslaughter? Or is there some loophole because he was recklessly driving on 2 wheels, rather than 4.
Bro Tim, a ruling please.
hey, now that crazy bitch who likes to sleep in ditches doesn’t have to!
there are shelters she can camp out in.
I’m pretty sure if I were homeless… or a transit worker defaulting on his/her mortgage in the coming months, I’d be squatting in those suckers.
Since there are no buses running. Why shouldn’t bus stops & bus designated parking areas be used for parking by commuters. We know that there is an increase in traffic & people who would normally take a bus are taking cars , why shouldn’t these ‘extra’ spaces be utilized ?
Seems like the fair thing to do IMO.
You can park at the larger terminals like Mumford, Woodside ferry, Bridge terminal, Park n’ rides, etc. That’s been in place since about day 4 or 5 of the strike, I think.
We, as taxpayers, own the frigging spaces and as such if they are not being utilized as intended then another purpose is acceptable.
BUT, please remember do not smoke inside the quasi-butt-hut.
yeah, but yet it’s somehow ok for the poor freezing picketers to have an open fire in a barrel spewing smoke all over the place. seems legit.
I also will add that I have used the bus lane on Windmill Road, (in front of the Bridge terminal), when turning left onto the MacDonald bridge in the mornings and no one has said anything to me yet. I’m actually surprised more people aren’t using it. It’s basically a free lane.
I was thinking of bitching about this as well!! Aargh! I totally agree. What is up with the picketers being able to find available FREE parking (for example right downtown at the Barrington street bus terminal) While other people are having a hard time finding available parking becuase of the strike?? Give them a ticket or stop giving people tickets that are in loading zones!
Ok…maybe I should have been more clear….it’s not the Park & Ride spots, or even the parking lots…it’s where the busses pull in!! TO THE BUS STOPS at these terminals…and it’s the picketers that are parking there as I drive by the same cars everyday!!
No one opened up a parking spot for me as my commute now involves my car instead of public transit. No one opened up spots for my staff or my customers..
i’m trying to look at your tattoo, skully, but i get an eyeball
Sorry Skully girl, I misread your initial post.
I agree with you 100%. It’s bullshit. They (strikers) are being let to get away with an awful lot that any other citizen of this city, (you and me), would get fined for. Parking in the bus stops…either make it parking for ANYONE or none at all. Ticket/tow all violators. Parking on on-ramps like the one by the main depot in Burnside. You can see their cars lined up the side of the ramp that leads onto the Circ. From what I understand, unless you’re broken down, this is illegal. Ticket/tow all violators.
Burn barrels. (This one pisses me off)I have a fire pit in my back yard. I called the local fire dept. to get the rules on the usage of this item when I bought it 2 years ago. So long as there are no open fire bans, my fire pit is on an non-combustible surface, it has a screen spark arrestor of which the fire must remain contained therein, it is min. 15 feet from any structure, away from any overhead branches, awnings or other obstructions, only seasoned firewood is being burned, (no garbage, construction debris, scrap lumber, treated/painted wood, etc) and there is a means of extinguishing it in an emergency, I’m good to go. I comply with all these reasonable rules and more, (such as not using it on windy days as the chance for flare up is greater and I don’t want to smoke out my neighbors.) So, could someone please tell me how having a fire in a 45 gallon barrel with no spark arrestor (a grill is NOT a spark arrestor), burning cut up pallets and scrap lumber, paper, plastic, (I’ve seen it), with flames shooting 3-4 feet OVER the lip of the barrel, on the side of a city street with no visible means of extinguishing it, (no hose, sand, water buckets, fire extinguisher) is being permitted? I would really hate to think that the HRM FD is looking the other way as a sign of solidarity to their union brothers and sisters. I would really hate to think that they are picking union politics over fire laws and public safety. But that’s the message I’m getting.
You want to strike, fine. Go hard. But you sure as fuck should be made to follow the same rules and laws as every other citizen in this city.
if they’re YOU’RE staff… wouldn’t you be the one opening up the spots for them?
There’s a spot in fairview right outside the esso station you can pull into.
happy?
mmm HeartzZz…MY STAFF meaning I employ people at a University…Parking is NEVER FREE!!
that… is definitely true.
I have a staff too…
and despite the recession it’s constantly in a flux of growing and shrinking…
especially in the morning.
“I want less parking in HRM” Not sure you have much support OP.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/66243-t…
That accident between the pedestrian and the cyclist is tragic but I’ll say it again, these 50 something people should not be out walking unattended.
This bus strike does seem to have some positive green spin-offs, people are walking, biking and car-pooling. If the drivers don’t rethink their situation, they find themselves an anachronism.
With the price of $1.36/litre and rising, I am looking forward to the day when few people have the combustion engine and most are riding bicycles and Vespas.
I live in Dartmouth North where the village idiots of HRM Planning decided to block off certain streets so now we have to drive the long way around to get to Victoria and Highfield intersection EXCEPT now.
Since the strike I have been cutting thru the terminal for BUSES ONLY cept there aint no buses so until there are BUSES I will use it til it is for BUSES ONLY.
Last time I drove thru a METRO TRANSIT supervisor SUV drove by and glared at me…I smiled…..we met each other at Tims….I looked at him with a dare glare to open his striking astericks…he said nada..why cause there aint no buses for the BUSES ONLY to be a legal issue.