The Portland Hills bus terminal is grossly subpar in that there are no machines to make change. The payphone won’t accept quarters, you need a fucking calling card. The vending machines eat your money and the fucking Link bus robs you blind because you have to put a whole loonie in there when you can’t make change for 50 cents. You metro transit bastards have a change counter that ensures you get the proper fare. You have built in this technology to protect your bottom line. Would it fucking kill you to spit out my 2 quarters change? I don’t like giving away free money to line the pockets of your fatass CEO’s. Furthermore, WHY does a direct, short link route cost more than the other routes? These buses are essentially empty because nobody wants to pay extra for nothing. The amount of traffic this terminal has created for cole harbor road is ridiculous compared to the amenities it actually succeeds in providing. I would rather wait on the street and shave 15 minutes off my travel time then fuck around in your shitshack. Your bathroom is always closed for repainting. You can’t even take a shit in that shitshack. Probably due to all the graffiti all over bathroom due to the pissed off passengers. —ripped off daily by rich assholes
This article appears in Dec 12-18, 2013.
Bus pass, Bus tickets, rolls of coins from the bank, big can of loose change next to the door. There are a host of childishly simple ways to “Fight da powa” Or would you prefer that bus fares be rounded up to the nearest dollar?
Question – has anybody ever seen a change maker in a public place that actually worked? Any that I have seen have either had Out of Order signs or been smashed open and gutted, which is probably why there isn’t one at Portland Hills.
Don’t let the hipsters find out there’s coin changers in terminals..they won’t last long.
You could stop being a lazy turd burglar and get that loonie changed before you get to the bus stop. The link is more money because it has less stops and travels main roads so it’s faster, you pay more to get between the different parts of hrm quicker. OMG a public bathroom is violated and dirty?!?! Vive la revolution!!!!! This cannot stand man!
My stop doesn’t even have a shelter stop your crying.
Wow OB me thinks you are going to get ripped apart for this bitch, duck and cover.
And how long do you think a change machine would last there? Get your change the day before.
You know you need quarters every day…
take a trip to the fucking bank and grab a roll or 2…. jesus.
Talk about a needless whiner.
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Portland Hills?
The change counter guts of the fare boxes were taken out of the fare boxes because people were whining and bitching that the drivers were letting people know that their fare was short. As usual Metro Transit caves to the whining and blubbering of the masses. They have no backbone, just a yellow streak.
While change machines in terminals, I admit, are a good idea (call 311 and suggest it), the rest of this post reeks like a public washroom.
The Link costs more because it stops less. If that doesn’t suit you, take the 61 into Halifax instead. While this won’t work on all drivers, if you’re a regular user and the driver is too, you can ask to pay an extra dollar the next day instead.
The graffiti is often racist and needs to be painted over, it has nothing to do with service.
Getting ripped off implies something beyond your control is happening, or you were fooled into thinking something that wasn’t true.
Not that you’re too lazy and disorganized to make your own damn change. You know you’re going to need it, you HAVE the money. Stop making a trip to a change machine into rocket science.
Some people are too fucking stupid to take public transport, as Lewis Black says ‘they’re meat with eyes’.
People who try to couch their own carelessness/laziness/stupidity in Marxist terms can shampoo my crotch.
Hey OB, you are a fucking idiot.
There are a grand total of ZERO change machines at ANY Metro Transit terminals – Scotia Square, the Bridge Terminal, Highfield Park, Mumford, Mic Mac Mall, etc.
It’s obvious that your self-entitled head is shoved up your self-important ass.
The comment about the fare counter is also off-base. I have yet to step onto a bus that has a working one. Looks like Wheels provided the reason why.
The comment about the bathroom being closed is also way off the mark. How is it Metro Transit’s fault that the riffraff that hangs out at the terminals writes on the walls? I’m sure if it keeps up, they’ll do the same thing that the did at Mumford – close the bathroom permanently.
Go choke on a biscotti, fucktard.
Yeah, I remember the bathroom at the Mumford Terminal.
I went out one night with a good friend when it was open back in 2005. We went into the washroom together because we didn’t want to be left alone outside as it was dark and creepy out (halloween, it was — so you KNOW there’s lots of assfuckery going on out there). While we were in there we were trapped by a group of early 20s hoodlums who begged to get into the washroom to ‘watch us’ because apparently two girls going to the bathroom together to stay safe means they’re obviously engaging in lesbian sex.
The washrooms, while in there, were DISGUSTING with graffiti, and the sharps container was filled to the brim.
I wasn’t one bit surprised when it closed.
Anyway, change machines at bus terminals is just bad news.