yesterday i walked my friend to the highfield terminal and was waiting for a bus with her, we wanted any bus going to the bridge, none came, 2 of the scheduled times the 53 just didnt show up, then the 52 whizzed by, it doesnt come into the terminal, what is the point of this, to have some buses go into the terminal and some dont, why is it such a pain to catch a bus anywhere on sunday.
i feel like this city is at a standstill. we are so far behind every other province in anyway, why cant we at least have some sort of decent transit. fuck 2.25, i’ll pay 2.75 (just like every other province) if we had buses that where
1. on time
2. had better more direct routes
3. there where more buses to go into the side nieghbourhoods that dont see any buses
4. all buses going in one direction didnt leave at the exact same time
—life wasted waiting for buses
This article appears in Mar 12-18, 2009.
Buy a car!
I’m with AlterEgo on this one, cars go on very specific routes, especially through all of those lovely sidestreets. haha
I will agree that on sundays a lot of the routes going in one direction will run around the same time and if you miss one you pretty much miss then all and have to wait about an hour.
Thank FUCK they put the 52 on every half hour on sundays. I hate the 52 with a passion, but on sundays my hatred expresses itself a little bit less.
The 68 and the 61 run from the cole harbour area into town within 5 minutes of each other. Sundays suck for transit anyways, but if you happen to be anywhere from cole harbour place to Montague Rd you’re pretty much screw’d any time you miss either.
Sundays are the only reason to own a vehicle. That and groceries.
Be glad you live in a city that HAS bus terminals. Try living in Saint John, NB… where you have to just “know” where the bus stops are and what times the busses come, since there are no shelters, no marked stops and no bus maps to go by. Bussing in Halifax is EASY compared to there.
I agree with Dr. F. One of the main reasons I sucked it up and got a car.
If the 52 actually went into the terminal, it’d be later than it already tends to be. That said, ever try connecting buses in Sackville on Sundays? Chaos theory best describes that situation (like how the 87 and 88 run together down Glendale, both running every hour).
PDG is riiiiiiight about the 52.
What always got me (before the route change) was that dumbass stop at highfield the 16 made (the way it was set up). THAT was a waste of time (and often fucked you over if you needed transfers at the Bridge Terminal). I think the new routing makes much more sense. Instead of backtracking it goes right through and covers some more residential area.
PDG: do you get a lot of people requesting you call and get a bus held back? I’ve done it a few times when the 4 was horribly late and I asked the driver to call and get the 18 held back at Lacewood. One driver (who I’ve had quite a few times and has always been nice. she gave me shit for it that day — kept ranting and raving at me even when I was sitting down. a simple “no” would’ve sufficed) wouldn’t do it, but two others were more than happy to do it. I also used to hear dispatch hold back the 51 on a pretty regular basis in the morning for an incoming 52 (which was awesome because that’s the transfer I had to make and the 52 is always late getting into the Bridge Terminal in the morning going to burnside).
Or better, buy a bike. At least its burning some of the excess fat gained from waiting around for the gargantous turtles.
PK: Nowadays I only get the odd request for it. It used to be that you could ask to hold back a “scheduled” connection via the control centre, but they axed that last year because it was having a snowball effect on the tardiness of the rest of the buses. If someone asks, I simply explain that it cannot be done but that I’ll do my best to get them there.
The routing on the 16 makes perfect sense, but it, like the 87, are still both doomed to show up just after the :25/:55 crowd of buses leave the bridge.