Are people lazy? Are people afraid of the bus police busting them if they open a window?
What is behind people not wanting to open windows on an otherwise sweltering bus on a perfectly nice 14 C day? Like what’s the magic number for you all to say “darn it’s hot on this bus… think I’ll open a window.” —Yet another bus bitch… an oldy but a goody
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
I think people are just afraid of doing something that someone else might not like. It’s a very Canadian trait, with us always trying not to offend anyone. We are a nation of people-pleasers. In Australia, they simply wouldn’t give a fuck and do what they want!
“Oyy, I reckon I bloody well open a bloody window on this bloody bus mate! If you don’t like it, you can get fucked! Crikey!”
perhaps they are scared of drafts and they’ll catch a chill and i’m sure they didn’t bring a wrap or a shawl with them 🙂
Did you bother to open a window when you got on?
Probably not. By demonstrating an ability to change climactic conditions you risk being burned for witchcraft by your fellow passengers.
if you open a window over your head, the breeze goes 2 or 3 seats down. if you want breeze, find someone with car, stick head out window like a dog, hang your tongue out, let people stare and laugh. pretty easy.
The bus driver should play tricks on the passengers, like cranking on the heat full blast in mid-August. The driver could also ‘happen’ to have a mechanical breakdown just as they get to the bus stop near Cars R Us…..the dealership could have a “Hot Bus, Cool Car” event at the same time. Financing guaranteed with Metro Transit transfer.
yeah, it can get fairly sweltering on there… and I’m always warm anyways.
problem is to get a breeze, you have to lean over buddy/chica two seats in front of you… and being the upstanding canadians we are, we don’t want to bug anyone else.
I would think though that at this point there should always be at least one window open and all times… even just one would make the difference.
Couldn’t you just ask the few people in your general area if you could crack a few windows? Why are we so affraid to talk to people these days? I am sure nobody would have yelled at you.
or maybe people simply perfer the 35 C in the bus to the crappy 14C outside! I know I would. as long as nobody stinks.
It must be for the elderly… so they don’t have to wear more than one sweater.
sebastian_, that idea rocks and could make serious cash if done right. Of course, if not done right, it’d be a one-time deal for the driver, lol.
Open the window, it’s not uncommon for me to come back to the garage now with a couple open windows.
Rocks or random gunfire PDG?
I can’t believe someone hasn’t mentioned..now that its nice out, take a bike !
20 degrees in Halifax feels like 15. I don’t understand the need for air conditioning in a place like Halifax! Why, so it can ALWAYS be winter?? I hate air conditioning..even if my room is 40 degrees celcius. A fan is good enough. If it’s summer, I want it to FEEL like summer..
the worst for me was in the winter when i would wimp out and not take my bike. the buses were so feckin hot and i think people stored their winter coats in a sewer, i would get bilious and end up walking anyway
The only time I’m bothered with a window being open on the bus when it has to speed down the highway (Route 66) and every window is open and it feels like a wind tunnel of doom
But ONE window isn’t going to hurt anyone
Yup, it’s the new metro transit, all sweat all the time. No seats and lots of heat. There are buses out there with 5 usable seats. 5. WTF?
But the heat is way too much. Nice & biological. I knew a guy who called the bus “The Tube of Disease”. These new hot buses are more so than ever. You might as well put a cedar bin of rocks on top of those front wheel wells and throw water on them occasionally.
And the fabric seats… wtf? Do the designers have no idea what the public smells like and what layers of dirt lurk on their clothing?
OK and the cleaners are obviously very short. Like the designers. The top handrails are never dusted. Months of diesel dust on them.
These new buses must come from a land of pixie elves that stand 4’2″ and fart rose essence.
I want the old buses back. You know, the ones that had seats? And BIG windows that easily slid open? I think that might be part of the problem with the new buses, many people cannot open the windows?
We really need the old buses back. Buy more Access-a-Buses and stop punishing the rest of us with these cheap crap accessible buses that rarely get used as such and really suck for the passengers that use them. Metro transit would save overall. These new buses are absolute crap. The old ones rocked.
Oh, and watch how Canadians fit on those few forward facing seats. With two people seated in them at least three quarters of a buttock protrudes into the aisle, and both passengers are left sitting with their hips at an awkward and painful angle. Canadians are big and smelly, we are not little munchkins made of pot-pourri. Get with the program Metro Transit, stop giving in to your cousin the cheap-ass bus salesman. Bus us some real buses like we used to have. It’s pretty simple, OK?
You cannot make a contoured seat of hard material for tiny asses and expect Canadians to be able to use them. And for the love of God, take the fabric off.