Ok class pay attention, Johnny stop picking your nose, Suzy leave the cell phone alone. Now when waiting for a bus (and you’ve been at the stop for God knows how long before the bus arrives) please have your bus pass, ticket, change ready. It is annoying to no end to pull up to a stop where you were clearly there waiting and you get on the bus and start looking for these items! If people are trying to get off the bus, please allow them to exit before you barge and shove your way on, pay attention! Don’t get on like a heard of cattle. The bus driver can only focus on one person at a time, wait your turn! Common courtesy doesn’t cost a thing, dare to be different! When showing your bus passes or transfers please do not show them at supersonic speed or behind the fareboxes, we do not have xray vision! When waiting for a bus especially on a street like Spring Garden where dozens of different buses travel, when you see the bus you want approaching, step toward the actual bus stop to let the driver know that you want this bus. We do not read minds, this would help us when we are running late and there is nothing more infuriating than stopping for you and you just look away because you are waiting for another bus. Step away from the bus stop to let us know you do not want this bus. Please allow the elderly and infirm to have a seat when the bus is full, remember one day this may be you! Please do not curse and swear on the bus this is not your home and you are offending others, remember common courtesy, and the world does not revolve around you! If you are seated on the bus please remain seated until the bus comes to a stop before getting up to get off, anything can happen, better safe than sorry! I could go on and on but the bell is about to ring, so the last thing I will add is please use common sense and common courtesy! Happy travels!! —Smooth Operator
This article appears in Dec 8-14, 2011.
I’m with you 100% on this one, Pilgrim, but in terms of length and using too many polysyllabic words, I fear you may have pitched your argument way above the heads of your target audience. Thanks for the rainy morning laugh, though.>: )
Please remain seated until the bus comes to a complete stop? The buses are so crowded people stand in the aisle all the time. So you admit this is dangerous?
Those exiting the bus should use the BACK FUCKING DOOR regardless of where you are sitting…………fuck, it’s like an IN/OUT thing………I watch these morons walk the length of the people carrier to exit via the front door……….arghhhhhhhh
OH YES, should you tumble on route and are injured and the driver asks you to take a seat………..DO NOT MOVE! Wait until an ambulance arrives and you are then treated. See, should you MOVE and cause further injury to yourself the transit legal team can attribute ANY of your injury to the fact that you MOVED……….who cares if you are lying tits-up on the floor of the people carrier? Once you take a seat the driver/supervisor can state that you were mobile enough to move AFTER the fall so they did not consider the injury to be of a serious nature! BEWARE!
Ivan “above the heads” or just “annoying” – there’s nothing complex about this. Merely windbaggy.
Listen OP, I agree with a lot of what you say. But as far as having your shit ready when the bus appears? Usually that’s a good policy but given the crappy schedule-adherence of metro transit’s coaches, lots of the time you’re running madly to catch the one you want. Now.. I’m no Steve McQueen.. perhaps some people are able to juggle running wildly through a crowd and pulling out their pass/change/tickets at the exact same time. But for those of us who can’t, or won’t, do that people like YOU are just going to have to be a little patient.
Yes, common sense and courtesy are free to have and use, but from daily experience in public areas it seems many people still can not afford to have or use them. Many just remain totally self centered, no matter what. Thankfully others using the bus, and other public places, have evolved out of the primal ooze.
i’m with you ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND percent on the elderly and infirm shit.. One day i watched a bunch of fat teenage girls plop their asses down in the accessibility seats and stay there even after a tiny old lady got on the bus. The tiny old lady could barely stand up. The fat girls kept looking at her so they knew she was there. But not one was intelligent enough to say “omg.. here! Take my seat!” And as a disabled person who once had chronic pain (and is now pleased to say she now has acute pain) nothing pisses me off more on days when i need a cane and still am unable to resolve a seat. WHILE DRIVERS SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING (thank you very much….)
See OP.. it sounds like you’re a bus driver yourself. Why don’t you step up and tell people off who sit there unnecessarily while a frail 90 year old or pregnant lady with messed up physics or young girl leaning on a support cane sways precariously?
My disability has almost been resolved. I have nerve damage but regular physio and internal martial arts have kept me fairly pain free and have given me back most, if not all, of my former mobility. But those memories smart. The passengers are stupid. But the DRIVER should know better and do something about it!
When bus drivers treat me with common courtesy with the new “right of way” law, instead of just putting your blinker on and pulling out regardless of what is already beside you, then I might have an inkling of sympathy for you. As for now, get fucked, you get paid to deal with all the above shit so put on a happy face and collect that oversized government handout you call a paycheque.
How to take a bus 101……don’t. Buy a car.
The only time someone gave a seat up for me on a crowded bus was when I was Prego. I was actually surprised someone was nice enough to give up a seat for me cause it was right in the middle of rush hour traffic. As for common courtesy on the bus , well all I can say is … Cause most don’t understand that concept. As far as having your bus pass / tickets / change ready…not always that easy since you never know when the bus will show up and not all are multi-talented. I’m not risking my childs safety just cause a driver wants me to hurry up.
I recall this Spaz who traveled the 60 out of Woodside, he basically broke all these rules, his antics were worth the bus trip alone.
Ok class I see you were not paying attention but that does not surprise me. I said IF you are sitting stay seated until bus stops, see the difference? I said when you are at the bus stop and were clearly already there waiting for the bus, why do you still wait to be on the bus to look for your fare? Be honest, how many times have you exited the bus from the front door yourself? I do ask people to give up their seats and most people are good about it. To the moron who thinks we are overpaid, go fuck yourself you ignorant asshole. Sorry shouldn’t have called you an asshole because assholes are useful. You have no idea how much needless bullshit and stress people like you cause us on a daily basis, and I’m willing to bet you wouldn’t last a day at this job. You would go home crying to your mommy, snot running down your snooty nose. A ten year old boy who was on my bus a few years ago is way smarter than you. He searched the internet for the most stressful jobs and was telling me about the top three. Here they are in order,#1 police officer,#2 firefighter,#3 bus operator. Fuck you!
These are the top 3…… stressful for the victims!
Stressful for the accused
Stressful for those who endure a fire
Stressful for the bus passenger
Yep, the top three indeed.
to be fair… had I attempted to procure my pass beforehand recently (and thus realize I didn’t HAVE one for DEC yet), I would have realized I needed to go get a pass and get my ass back to the stop asap.
Inevitably, the bus came and I didn’t have enough change…. missing my bus and forcing me to further delay my trip back to the batcave. (shhh, don’t tell anyone)
It’s sad that this bitch had to be written because, in all honesty, it should be second nature to abide by. It’s really not that hard… and it takes those really douchey fucking loser types to act stupid and really irk everyone around them, making the shitty (and always overheated) trip that much more unbareable.
Koda’s idea of always exiting out the back is decent, though impractical… especially for those buses that lower to assist the elderly or strollers.
they don’t have the mad, twizted, crazy, wicked hydrolics installed to lower the entire side of the bus….
and if memory speaks… when there’s an exemption case, it will be abused or exploited so no point in making it a hard and fast rule. I offer an amendment of “Use the door that is closest to your location on the bus.”
Do not sit one seat in front of the back door and then proceed to squish and flex past 5 people standing in the aisle to exit out the front.
THAT is why elderly/disabled/children are SUPPOSED to have seats near the front.
so they are CLOSER to the door they are to use as an exit.
Shadaaap wheels, I could drive the shit outa your bus, be friendly to transit users and courteous to other drivers on the road while texting, drinking coffee and thinking about how ima gonna spend my sweet paycheque. Gimme a fuckin break, all you have to do is smile, be polite, be helpful and drive. Doesn’t sound that bad to be, maybe your entightled union attitude gets in the way of your own happiness.
Shut the fuck up, I know you couldn’t do our job your to god dam stupid to be able to even follow the LAW! You have no idea what we get paid it is no where near enough for the shit we put up with on a daily basis and just so you know my pay check is not a hell of lot more then I was getting when I was making $11 an hour. We pay more into taxes then you could ever imagine.
Lol, you funny!!! I could do your job underwater!!!!
PS; it’s spelled Arctic.
Actually dumb shit its Artic, it’s a model of the new buses we have next time one drives by your sorry ass take a look at the back! Or you could go here and look http://www.autoevolution.com/news/mta-buys… oh wait maybe I should have asked if you could read at anything past a grade 3 level.
Steve, Artic is Sockpuppet Jim.
If you come to the summit, I’ll tell you who he is 😉
Here’s a little something to lighten the mood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgphANf8Qpk
It’s my most favourite Christmas scene EVER – just the part when they’re at the decoration store. I makes me laugh so hard, it’s beyond laughing, DEEPLY beyond.
Methinks I need to come here more often, the trolls are multiplying on both sides.
I can simplify this bitch. Use common sense and everyone will be happier.
Why would I “take a look back”, the bus has already gone past me? The answer is yes I can read past a grade 3 level, that’s why I can spell DAMN and know when to use YOU’RE, they don’t teach that until at least grade 5. Lol, assclown!!!
TROLL FIGHT!!!!
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/100…
I think you better go back to school there Harper. I do not see where “YOU’RE” fits into ” drives by your sorry ass”…
“Shut the fuck up, I know you couldn’t do our job your to god dam stupid”
Your, meaning YOU ARE: shot form YOU’RE.
You need to go back to school, assclown!!!
Oh my god you called me an assclown and pretty much everyone else who posts on this site. You’re pretty mouthy behind a keyboard I must say.
Oh and by the way it’s short not shot. Douchecanoe!
Lol, your (proper way to use “your”) anger makes me laugh. Assclown!!!
Artic, “We pay more into taxes then you could ever imagine.” ?!?
Since when do bus drivers have their own subset of tax tables? It’s based on income dumb ass, not occupation … so I’m quite sure the rest of us can imagine because it happens to us too. Seriously dude, think before you write.
http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/en/home/taxat…
http://www.gov.ns.ca/finance/en/home/taxat…
LOL what anger? Douchecanoe!!! I say just get rid of Transit once and for all then no one will have to complain about it again.
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comm…
Is the comma key missing from your keyboard Jester? I know they can be tricky little bastards to master, but some of your sentences need one.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize that I was writing an english essay. I have better things to do other than troll on an internet forum.
No you don’t. You keep responding, so obviously that’s not true. Lol, assclown!!
SHIdevil, frankly, I can imagine you driving an HRM bus for about 30 minutes at the most before you walked off with the blinkers flashing to take yourself out for a nice quiet lunch. Nothin’ personal–just sayin’
Furthermore, I don’t think it’s the driver’s job to police seating—S/he has a huge hard- to manoeuvre vehicle to manage! Peer pressure is much the better way to go…a good ‘stink eye’ and the single word ‘shame’ can be quite effective (and personally uplifting) on the part of a fellow passenger. Trust me on this.
Wheels, I would not want your job for one minute! Here’s a tip for you: I have taken buses in cities across North America and Europe and I can say that the best drivers know the regulars…sometimes even sing or make jokes…make the morning commute enjoyable.
People get on the bus all out of sorts, or not quite awake and sometimes mentally ill. It takes a real talent to take that crankiness or spaceyness or whatever and turn it around. Good luck to ya, brother-I could never do your job- fo shizzle-
Thank you Xenophilia, people like you make the world a better place. SHIdevil is a ignorant stupid fuck.
Xeno, during my younger years I have logged millions of kms driving tractor trailers through every state in the US, every province in Canada including some of the most challenging northern roads in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Alaska. I also operate all kinds of heavy equipment on construction sites, so when I say I could do his job (even underwater as a joke), believe me, I can.
Wheels, or whoever you are today, you need to stop being such a whiny princess, there are people more skilled, work harder and complain much less than you. Part of your job is dealing with adversity, acting professional and “sharing” the road with everyone else. From what I’ve seen since that new law has taken effect, most of you bus drivers feel you have no “shared responsibility” for road safety, just a piss poor attitude and complete lack of respect for other drivers.
SHIdevil, it wasn’t the driving aspect of the job I didn’t think you could handle. I believe you are fully capable of that.
It’s driving that harder-to-turn (something about articulated chassis) vehicle with people as your cargo that I doubt you could do: passengers who are often rude, oblivious, pushy sometimes dangerous…slowing you down so you are late to the next stops so that the passengers are angry as well as rude and pushy…I couldn’t do it, either.
Honestly, if you drove that bus, would YOU want to police seating arrangements in addition to your many other responsibilities? Maybe you would and maybe you would be like that driver someone wrote about a few weeks ago that just threw the passengers out in the rain for something trivial.
OK, maybe you could drive a bus—but I wouldn’t want to be on your route!
Oh sharper devil, your uselessness is confounding, I can’t wait till public meetings start with occupy. I ant to meet people like you, its amazing that you believe because you are driving around in a daze, that an car pulling out do sent have the right of way. Hit the bus instead of hitting your horn then. No no u will yap yap yap, that’s fine, wait till I eventually meet you. Your making a serious error in thinking, I have no problem smashing your face in if you actually did any of this bullshit, I believe ur actually 10 yo and have no car.
A few days ago while in a cab, a van would not let us merge into his left lane, I gave him the finger and he let the break go, he inched a little and I yelled “you got a fuckin problem”. He stopped then, if he had not he would have had me smashing his window and had his life in danger. You fuckin drivers will learn one way or another, respect others or I’ll fuckin ruin you bitch
The bus has the right of way because there are more ppl on it, how is that hard to get?
Kramer get your shrink to up your Clozaril dosage.
You’re fuckin’ losin’ it.
Trust me on this one buddy.
Bla bla, insults prove you are stupid dude, im not scared of your nonsence, cross me ya pay that my fuckin moto, otherwise in cool with anyone. If you have any self awareness you would have more ball than to just make an comment akin to one that jesus probably thought was old when some idiot made him up. Shut up looser?
Why wouldn’t you want to be on my route Xeno? Is it that you don’t like to arrive on time in a safe and comfortable atmosphere? Why would you think that I am not capable of being a thoughtful, organized, assertive and polite person? I can assure you that I am all of those things, just because I happen to be opinionated says nothing about how I carry myself professionally. I can also assure you that on top of those traits I am also patient, helpful, friendly and have a great sense of humour, making me an ideal candidate for such a career. Unfortunately, the reason I would not choose to do that job is it seems a little mundane, not nearly as much of a challenge as I need to capture my interest.
Jim, Jim, Jim, so now you are saying that the right of way is directly representative of how many people are in the vehicle? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard besides threatening someone for not letting you into traffic, lol. You won’t be meeting me in an occupy meeting, although they had my support in the beginning, their message has been diluted by the homeless sect tethering themselves to the bow of that sinking ship. Please Jim, you need to seek some professional help with your anger issues.
Lol professional help, sure yeah I have no reason to be mad, once again, where is your proof you are any of this things . You are nothing, and when I do someday meet you, you will laugh and say, aaaah common its just the internet right, like every other coward, you yap and yap andhink ur protected. Last response u gt child, u are not useful.
“I have no problem smashing your face in if you actually did any of this bullshit,”
There’s my proof that you need professional help, Mr. internet badass!!! When you were typing this, did you poke really hard at your keys? Perhaps some anger management classes could help with your rage issues.
Coward…. let’s meet for a coffee then real life stuff man. No you are not up to that, a disabled illetrate person is too scary right, like the occupy guy was carry in fall river?
You telling me that its wrong to punch your face no matter what? Sad sad little child, see im allowed to hit you if i feel in danger, you understand that right.
Fuck just realized ur useless, never mind coward. Keep typing while the people who steal laugh, and i carve stuff in your paint job. All the while explaining we all need help? Lolololol
I know you are troubled Jim but trust me when I say that Your Father loves you.
And this I say to you. If you are on meds make sure to keep taking them according to your doctor’s instructions.
Peace.
Im not on meds and im not in anyway mental, I just will not take your nonsence, been plagued by it my whole life, will not tolerate it. The occupy movement is evil, and most of you are evil, and i am not evil. I don’t hurt anyone unless they deserve it, the guy in the van either obeys the law and allows us to merge, or I teach him a lesson. Sorry you people think only people in the middle east deserve violence if they dont comply.your drones will never find my bunker 🙂
If you can’t let the bus merge, an old person sit down, a disabled person to cross the street, well im gonna smack ya around, get it?
I dont care if its right or wrong, but i sure wont make it this cut and dry, I’ll make it all very convaluted with a bunch of feelings and oh I just blacked out and yadda yadda bla bla, just like you idiots, but no diffrent from how lots of guys get “hurt” at work, you will also be hurt by mistake. Starting to get the picture?
When you play like a coward, we can all do it also, just most ppl either can’t be bothered or are unable. While im able I’ll fight with everything I have, and your perception of my methods mean nothing, just like the methods you employ except mine hurt the person who did something wrong. Where you just go around making accusations. Ever think maybe just maybe I’ve tried all the nice ways, and learned they are busy work for children and the feble?
Makes me laugh that you can’t see through this bravado and see that im hurt and angry, if i gave any of you the smallest opening you would pounce like a wild animal, as you all have on the occupy movement and would on your best friend if there was enough incentive.
Jim, Shidevil is a woman. Put your dukes down.
Chillax, OK? top posting when drunk and listen to X’s 11th commandment: thou shalt stay on thy meds. Serious! You don’t want to make the baby Jesus cry, do you?
Its cute how all of you seem to believe anger is a illness, and that disgust is not a relivent emotion when abused. Yes many have tried that tactic, yet when teachers attacked me as a child verbally and physically when trying to leave situations before they got too violent. But they are justified to throw a 8yo child around right? Across desks yeah sure. And being attacked by groups for sucking cock, or rumors of it, all that was ok.
Seems I have no right to be angry, while 2/3 of our population is on public pay, I have no income and never have had any, being fired for being gay many times.I use to not talk to people, they brought me out with kindness, they didn’t like who I was, and ran away.
You pieces of shit made me and others like me, we warned you to stop, you laughed and made us feel small when we were small. Im no longer small, im no longer scared. But I sure do have a bone to pick, and the wrath you ppl allowed to build in me, is now yours to deal with. And you arent gonna like it.
Jesus can suck a donkey dick, and i don’t care if she’s a woman,and id never really hurt y’all, I really just was abused allot. I don’t usually even defend myself if the person is smaller or something, I just am ready to fight any second, having guns pointed at ones self can make one quite jumpy….
Ok im chilled now and I wanna say, if you don’t want crazy responses, don’t poke the crazy bear. I’ve really investigated mental illness cause ppl have said this all my life, ever since I was very little. I guess this brings a short story to mind.
After meeting my father at 15 it was explained to me by my mother and father that, “when I was brought home from the hospital, my father got very angry from my crying, this keep building until the 5-6th day, when he proceeded to spank me, when this didn’t help ,he threw me at the wall till I stopped”. This is their words.
They both live well now, never having paid for anything for me for most of my life, I lived on streets and with friends most of my childhood. So I may have anger issues yes, problem is in everyone of you I see the ability to abuse either by ignorance or complacancy, so sorry but this crazy guy believes you have no rights when you have this ability.
I really wish I was crazy, then something could be done.
Ohhhhhhh noooooo…. Not the wrath of Crazy Jim the Internet Badass!!! Lol, what are you going to do, type in all capital letters? I’m going to love it Jim, bring on the wrath. BRING ON THE WRATH JIM, BRING ON THE WRATH!!!!!!
One rule that was missed. Do not exit the bus until it comes to a complete stop!
SHITTY-D is a chick?
Huh.
Funny how this is a metro transit bitch, but the word “deinstitutionalization” comes to mind when I read through the comments. This guy needs help.
Yes Xeno, some clarification on Mr. Harper’s gender. Are you questioning his manhood over the bus debate or do you know something the rest of us don’t.
I really don’t know what to make of Jim Kramer. Is he a troll or something much more tragic? He’s certainly fond of the word “coward”. Anyway Jim, you need to chill and don’t take anything anyone says in this forum too seriously. To use an overused phrase “It is what it is!”
troodon stop petting the troll !
could end up with more trouble than feeding it is ~;)
I would like to comment about buses having the right of way.
IF you actually have a drivers license, that means you should know how to YIELD. the New Law says a driver must yeild for a bus at a bus stop that is trying to pull out.
How would we know if its trying to pull out ? (you may ask)
Well supposedly there are these little lights on the back of the bus that FLASH on the left if it wants to pull away from the curb.
The problem boys & girls & I’ve witnessed this several times the bus drivers fails to use his lights & just pulls out.
You see a person passing the bus cannot yield, because IF the bus driver uses the lights at that point, the passing driver won’t see them.
WHICH IS WHY, the bus driver needs to make sure he is in the clear before pulling out & the driver BEHIND the bus must yield.
All very reasonable actions on everybodies part…unfortunately many are not very reasonable !
To the person who wrote everyone must exit out the back door.
You are forgetting about when its standing room only. Then those who are at the front of the bus, would have quite a battle to get to the rear door . All the people in the aisle would be in the way .ALSO let us not forget about our handicapped & elderly riders.
They are often right up at the front of the bus & it is much easier to get off through the front door. so calm the fuck down, let those off the bus exit & then you will have so much more room for your large stroller & or multi fathered brood !
Would it make any difference if I was a woman?
SHITD you are so stupid. Just because you have driven all those big rigs and so on you are still mostly by yourself or maybe with a hitch hiker or prostitute you have picked up. Hardly in need of serious customer service skills you obviously do not possess as is evident by your very rude comments to anyone with an opinion other than you. Ignorant cock sucker! No wait a cocksucker is useful you are not. Go fuck yourself.
Lol @ wheels!!! It’s funny you accuse me of not being able to provide adequate costumer service because my posts are sometimes rude. I’m not sure, but calling a woman a cocksucker (regardless of usefulness) is poor customer service. That’s ok though, isn’t it wheels? Your union will protect you against gross incompetence in customer service skills won’t they? It’s funny, most of the complaints I see on here regarding bus drivers are in regards to their poor customer service. It’s too bad that you live up to the stereotype of a dumbass redneck in the transportation industry. I bet you have a tattoo of barbed wire on one of your biceps, and at least one coverup of an ex-girlfriends name. Now, loosen your dinnerplate sized belt buckle, it seems to be causing you needless discomfort and high blood pressure.
I don’t think it would make a difference if you were female, I just always thought you were male.
Yeah PK, I’m a guy. I think she was trying to troll me into defending my maleness. Sorry Xeno, no dice.
Sorry-it was something you wrote a few weeks ago that made me think this. My Bad.
Sharper dev is a avg guy hiding behind his pc spouting garbage, he has proved he’s a kid, who’s done nothing, and does not even know the law, ignore him.
Wheels, you are probably one of the good drivers, im sorry for these people. If im on your bus, you can be sure, I will keep these fucks In line, by force if nessesary.
I have nothing to loose people, put me in jail ,I guarantee I’ll only thrive. But you will never catch me, because you expect the police to protect you, do you seriously think I would allow you to dial a phone lol.
Keep thinking you are tough, when ur disabled like me, you will see things in a new light, even if I have to make it happen.
Jim, some 4 decades ago, the alchemist and seer George Jones got really hammered and wrote some enigmatic quatrains in which he predicted that you would, indeed “Stop lovin’ her today”. Unfortunately, he failed to predict the manner in which this would occur, and where you would dispose of the body parts.
SHITD “would it make any difference if I was a woman”
Well now that you mentioned it….
It would if your tits were big & you were cute !
~;)
SHITD you’re so full of yourself. You have the personality of a door knob and the intelligence of dryer lint. And it’s the prostitutes you picked up while driving your big rigs that had the customer service skills not you. You know nothing about common decency. Your retorts clearly show us this. Better to let people think you are stupid than to open your mouth and leave them no doubt.
Hey wheels, you never start a sentence with a conjunction (the conjunction this time being “and”, so you don’t have to look it up, no need to thank me). You seem to know a lot about hookers and what type of customer service to expect, I’m assuming from personal experience. It’s unfortunate all you can do is comment on my lack of intelligence, which by the way, is a sign of your lack of intelligence. I can just see all your bus driving buddies avoiding eye contact while reassuring you that you’re doing a great job at being the very model of the polite customer service oriented MT employee they all strive to be. There are lots of polite and skilled MT employees, you, unfortunately are not one of them, and as you continue your angry rants you embarrass yourself and your more competent brethren.
Back to my original post, you, as a collective, need to start respecting other drivers on the road instead of just putting on your blinker and pulling out into traffic with no regard for the safety of everyone else that “shares” the road with you. I don’t see how my intelligence has anything to do with your ability to not be a dick on the road. If you had the skill set to do your job you wouldn’t have to have a legislated right of way, and by pushing your “right” to the extreme and putting other drivers lives in danger is just plain ignorant. I myself have fallen victim to one of MT’s finest pulling out of a bus stop and forcing me into oncoming traffic, while my vehicle position at the time was about 2 feet from the bus drivers window. His reaction was to shrug and laugh. The law doesn’t give you the right to switch lanes without yielding, which I’ve also seen happen, and been the recipient of, and just drive around with no responsibility. That’s not the purpose of it at all, but it seems to be an option instead of being safe and skillful.
No need to respond with bland attacks on my intelligence and my supposed affinity for sex trade workers.
Speaking of the fucking Buzzzz……… I took the #90 this week and the driver had the most unkempt appearance and scraggly long gray hair……….. nasty………..just fucking nasty. This dude looks like a heroine addict. PLEASE get a proper cut and look both your age and respectable.
To make matters worse, Two-Ton Tonia was standing behind him and she was too wide for the aisle………. I think she may be a transit employee or just fat and ugly and resembled one. Anyway, there were three others on this bus and she stood in the aisle the entire time ………. with chubs for fingers I have no idea how she was managing to clack out the messages on her crackberry………..
SHITD have you ever even taken a bus before? How would you even know how my customer service skills are and how my driving skills are if you do not know who I am and and have never been a passenger on my bus? So your ignorence is evident by what you say. I never said all mt bus drivers are excelent in their customer service skills or in their driving skills did I? The public loves to paint us all with the same brush which is unfortunate. We are vilified, assaulted, cursed at on a daily basis, no wonder some drivers are fed up and have no patience. We are not backed up by our employers, have to tote the public around when other drivers are told to stay off the roads in blizzards, and sad to say only in these times of inclement weather are we appreciated by the public who still need to get to work. And as for the yield to busses by-law, it’s a total joke. There are a few decent drivers out there who do yield to us but not very many. I think it has made drivers even more aggressive toward us. Have you ever seen the by-law enforced? As a driver yourself you well know of blind spots. We cannot do shoulder checks because all we would see is the wall behind our seats. We cannot poke our heads out the window as this would cause us to almost have to get up out of our seats. The spot you said you were at beside the bus you said cut you off is one of our blind spots. Why don’t you apply to metro transit for a job? I wonder if you could even make it through the probation period withought getting yourself fired because you could not handle the pressure and assaulted some rude rider who dared to call you every name in the book.
Wheels — I see more good drivers than bad around these parts, especially compared to Ottawa. Some of us appreciate y’all. This morning I had a great older gentleman drive the bus I was on and I got to work 15 minutes early because he went around the traffic.
😀
See wheels, all you had to do was have a conversation without name calling and insulting intelligence and you will get treated likewise. The same thing goes for me with the skills and customer service, how would you know anything about my abilities in either? I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you aren’t one of the assholes, but you and I both know that there are dick bus drivers out there who do pull out and put people in danger. Nuff said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZvarRe-XVQ
To bus drivers:
Don’t pull away at supersonic speeds before I have a chance to walk towards your bus.
Don’t stop the bus to go outside & suck back smokes.
Quit riding the break and learn to drive so we can have a break from the constant whiplash and practically falling out of our seats.
Don’t be such assholes. Would it kill you to look away while I finish my coffee or if I’m a couple cents short on fare?
Next time you’re (see I spelled it correctly SHITD) on a bus no food, try telling the bus driver before you put the fare in you’re a few cents short and I bet he or she will let you on and ask if you want a transfer. Read and remember what I said, tell BEFORE you put fare in that you’re short. If it is as you say a few cents and not two dollars or more you should have no problem. As for looking away while you finish your coffee, if you’re talking about getting on the bus with the coffee cup in your hand why don’t you get yourself a travel mug and you can take it on the bus with you and will have no problem. If you’re walking toward a bus you want, how do we know you want the bus and are not just walking down the street? Wave to us to let us know you want the bus, not rocket science is it no food.
Oh please Mr bus driver I’m a dime short, can I please get on your big stinky hunk of metal full of bums & crazy people? It don’t come out your pocket, does it? Give a man the littlest ounce of power and he becomes a nazi making you trash the double double you JUUUST bought. No difference between a travel mug and a tims cup. Both are cups with liquid in em and a hole at the top.
Pleeeeeeeease no food get a clue!
sorry wasn’t wearing my reading glasses I see it’s no fool. Realy?????