Hey metro transit, I’m curious. What was the point in spending likely millions on this new transit terminal if your riders still do not have a warm place to wait? Sure, you’ve gone and built not one, but two small, mostly exposed shelters, but to be honest they are worse than the last one (who thought a massive double door was a wise choice when the east coast is known for rain, more rain, and wind?)
In essence all you’ve done is built a very expensive bathroom for your drivers and gone ahead and told your highfield customers exactly what they deserve in your mind: nothing. Coincidentally, that is what a lot of us already have. Could that be why?
Not only have you denied us a warm retreat from harsh weather, you’ve failed to install a digital schedule. Instead, you’ve planted a single pay phone (on the outside, of course), which further proves that you are a) clueless as to your customers needs and means, or that you really just don’t care. How can you expect us to pay even more for a service you provide for free somewhere else?
How disappointing. —Cold nose, cold toes, and other woes
This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2014.
Maybe Metro transit believes most in Highfield park are pro-choice hence the lack of convenience and basic amenity.
It’s an experiment in Pavlovian psychology. How long will it take to smash the windows and cover every planar surface with spray paint squiggles. Once the initial damage has been done, we then get to see how long until one of the Coast’s op-ed dribblers blames systemic racism in the HRM for the poor infrastructure investment in certain neighborhoods. Sounds pretty win-win for all involved. Well, except for the taxpayer and transit user and as we all know, they don’t count for shit anyway.
OP the land is too small for indoor shelters for passengers, it was either give the bus drivers something they NEEDED (bathroom, especially for the 66 drivers who sometimes do 10 hours on that route with no transit owned bathroom meaning they have to rely on private business to let them use the bathroom) or give passengers who are there for no longer than 20 min (if they plan correctly only 5 min)
I definitely don’t begrudge the bus driver having a bathroom and other facilities there however I reject that the land is to small to have an indoor bus shelter, there was and is plenty of space to put a small indoor waiting area, say something roughly the size of the indoor area on Mumford, or maybe a little smaller. It doesn’t have to fit 100 people but something that could fit 20 doesn’t seem unreasonable.
p.s. If you think that you never have to wait anymore that 20mins for a bus in Highfield you’ve clearly never been waiting for a bus later in the night or on a Sunday.
quit your complaining. these guys have to drive in the blizzard, you know.
Who fucking cares? Did you think that taking the bus was somehow convenient? Stand and shiver, Sucka!!
PS; my heated seats were a little too hot this morning. I had to turn them down to a medium setting and roll the window down a little for a minute.
Why is there a terminal in Highfield? No tenant there pays taxes and it is not as though people dwelling in that area have jobs to attend each day. What is the complaint?
Every shit-hole requires a shitter …. so, that is exactly what they built.
Koda all the tenants in Highfield pay taxes, its built into their rent! Or do you not understand basic business principals? The point of a business is to make a profit, so when you get that good ol tax bill from HRM as a landlord you take a small portion of the rent money (your income from owning rentals) to pay the property taxes.
Double, the landlords pay the taxes …. however, provincial and municipal owned dwellings are exempt … so, essentially they do not pay taxes. It’s just a BASIC business principle …. and notice how I corrected your principal … sweet, eh!
No one cares about your heated seats shitdoc. Good if you have piles though.
Yours truly
No problem with the breakroom at all but there seems to be some wasted space where the riders wait. As far as the bigger doors to get out, it’s better then trying to get by the Knobtards that stand right in the doorway.
Well you know why they installed the phone….
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/1708754176/h2…
Are you REALLY asking why a digital bus schedule board wasn’t put in in HIGHFIELD, OB?
That shit’d last for a day before it was either jacked or vandalized. So obvs the decision was to not even bother in the first place.
I give the pay phone a month before it’s out of service due to the fucktards slothing around that dump.
The terminal at highfield is just a little hold in the wall terminal. It’s not a major terminal, and isn’t treated as such.
Currently, the Lacewood terminal, which is a pretty substantial terminal has no indoor waiting area. You can either stand outside and freeze, or you can stand in the shelter and freeze (and that’s only if there’s room in the shelter). And it doesn’t have a drivers’ bathroom. So why should a tiny terminal like Highfield get all the bells in whistles for only a few people when larger terminals with more volume of riders exist get nothing? Glendale is a pretty new terminal and it has a lot of volume (especially in the mornings — MUCH more than Highfield) and it doesn’t have indoor waiting areas, either.
Taking the bus *is* inconvenient. You have to schedule your schedule around their schedule, you have to share space with people who are often obnoxious and who often stink and you have to put yourself out by walking to and from stops and you have to wait outside, sometimes in harsh conditions. That’s just the nature of it. And the onus is on YOU to prepare yourself accordingly. It’s called MASS transit, not your personal chauffeur: bundle up.
Them’s just the breaks when you rely on public transit.