I have enough stress from this time of year, trying to do those last minute tasks that can’t be done in advance. I don’t own a car, so I depend on Halifax Transit to get around. Hfx Transit is so f*cked up. As the best of times, I waste an hour a day making connections. This week I got on one of the buses with that asinine audio messaging system!!!!! What a total cluster F*CK!!!! It blasts out message about the upcoming stops, based on street names. If you know the street name, wouldn’t you have the f*cking intelligence to know where your stop is???? We managed for decades without it, we learned how to plan our trips. Today we have the advantage of online maps, and they now include the transit stops. Has the combined IQ of the general population sunk to the bottom of the harbour?? Have all these zombie shows on TV prepared us for the surge of braindead zombies among us???
After a day of shopping, I developed a headache and had to take a bus home. It really is a total clusterF*ck. You can’t talk to anyone with the constant bitchy interruptions, you can’t talk on your phone. I tried to force myself to relax, but the asinine computer voice pushed my headache to migraine status. When I thought of all the things that I had left to do this week, I couldn’t do it. At that moment, I thought’ F*ck it, it’s absolutely not the most wonderful time of the year. I refuse to participate in this shitty social pain in the ass called Xmas. FOREVER.
So you will not be getting gifts from me. Only a simple card with this message:
I wish you Happy Holidays. Enjoy time with your friends and family. But Halifax Transit has killed the holiday spirit for me. Hfx transit has become a huge mess, and now the audio messaging has made bus travel very uncomfortable. I have decided that I MUST get a car. From this point forward, I will be using the money used to buy all gifts, to buy and maintain a car. Not just xmas gifts, all gifts. I place full blame on management at Hfx Transit.
Merry F*CKING Xmas. —Scrooge you, Hfx Transit
This article appears in Dec 15-21, 2016.
I sense anger in you O.P.
HOLY FUCK! SIT THE FUCK DOWN YOU SHORTSIGHTED ASSCUNT!!!
The whole reason for the talking system is for the blind, you DUMBFUCK!
only a self centred assmonkey like you would think the world and it’s pleasures are simply there to service your jilted sense of self worth!
HOLY FUCK SOME PEOPLE IN THIS CITY ARE COMPLETELY FUCKED IN THE HEAD!
You big fucking infant. Better start saving for an old clunker or a dog sled to save your precious nerves. Halifax Transit planned all this just for your discomfort.
And what Cumonalready said. Underlined and in bold.
Yes, the new system has been brought in to help the blind and any other visual impairments, and in fact that may be even the sighted as often it is hard to see where you are when the bus is full, during darkness, or the windows are covered by those external wrap around ads, snow / rain etc. Also, very handy for people who do not know the area such as tourists or even people from other parts of town and so on.
So it is meant to help people know where they are, not specifically put in to annoy you. And at this time it is a trial period so they may tune some aspects of it over time, such as volume, style of message – perhaps with less duplication etc. As some cities often just list the nearby cross street to the stop not always the street you are on etc. So transit in HRM is just starting to finally catch up with other transit systems, and it will evolve over time. Meanwhile since this is only being tested on a few routes but will roll out to all routes down the road so invest in some ear plugs if it truly annoys you that much, but it is a real help to many other people.
Earplugs, you can get a whole bag of them for 10 bucks at Rona. You’re welcome for solving your stupid non issue!
would you rather have the blind bus passengers driving cars instead?
So, you’re cancelling Christmas because bus stops are announced on a speaker.
Makes total sense….
….if you’re a complete fucking psycho – which is exactly what you sound like.
A day of shopping and you got a headache. You are one sorry piece of work.
”So you will not be getting gifts from me. Only a simple card with this message: I wish you Happy Holidays. Enjoy time with your friends and family. But Halifax Transit has killed the holiday spirit for me.”
Are you going to take transit to return these items purchased on your day of shopping or wait until you have that car and drive your sorry ass back to the Dollar Store?