OK, here’s the scenario: jumpin’ on the #54 from Woodlawn area to do downtown Dartie stuff, mid-afternoon, too early for rush hour. Firstly, Smiling Mild-Mannered Bus Driver: you’re 8 minutes behind schedule. Do you not realize people may want or need to make that departing-on-the-hour ferry to Halifax? Secondly, Middle School Moron strolling down the aisle to the rear exit door in slow motion, texting all the way…Uh, could you move a bit slower, please? The Texting Generation drives me frickin’ bonkers. Thirdly, those of you (usually with bulging knapsacks on your backs) who insist on standing when there are plenty of seats available: WILL YA SIDDOWN ALREADY!!! You’re either blocking passenger traffic along the aisle, or at the front or back doors, making loading/unloading take longer and putting the bus further behind schedule. Smarten up, all of you. —Crotchety Transit Rider of the Pepsi Generation
This article appears in Apr 20-26, 2017.
Firstly isn’t a word…also…welcome to public transit
After 1 pm the ferries run every 15 minutes until midnight. They’re only every 30 minutes on weekends or like, between 9:30 and 1 pm on weekdays.
Someone needs to buy a car and get over it.
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adverb: firstly
used to introduce a first point or reason.
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Our transit system does suck! It’s a small town that can’t accommodate a good transit system. Couple that with some of the worst drivers on earth, including transit systems who for some reason have one job, to keep the route schedule, make for a terrible transit system.
I do agree with OP though as I have experienced it. How can a transit bus be late when there’s no traffic or any traffic incidents?!
I do recall getting stuck behind a bus, around 7pm, going up parkland drive, one of the least busy streets, doing 30km/hr! Not sure why they do that!
Did you verbalize any of this in the moment?