To the person/people constantly breaking the bus stop windows around Clayton Park/Bayer’s Lake area:
What exactly does this achieve? I’d consider a bank robber higher than you on the list because at least they’re doing it to get some kind of payoff. Aimlessly shattering glass gets you what?… “props” from your posse?…
Oh f*** off. Find something else to do, preferably something productive.—SMH
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
Good bitch, OP. The shelter in front of my building on parkland is ALWAYS smashed, the same pane of glass at the lacewood terminal is always smashed and the shelter they JUST put in at the stop going towards BLIP on lacewood/parkland was just smashed.
FFS enough, already.
Why are the bus stops made of that material anyway?
newtohalifax: because other materials also cause problems. Plexiglass melts/burns and cement creates poor visibility. Unfortunately, there are only so many materials you can make a bus shelter out of and glass is the best thing for both protecting you from wind and visibility, it just happens to also be fragile.
Personally, I’d like to smash the faces of the kids who do this, and I don’t even take the bus that often.
I’ve been saying this for years, use plexiglass. Yes the visibiliy would be poorer but least you can still see through. Just think of all the money this stupid city would save if they swich over.
what iot gets them, a feeling of being cool to their little texting brain dead dumb ass shit head little friends. good enough for you as an answer.
These young people have a better than even chance of growing up to be cops. I’ve seen this dynamic many times before. The ones who misbehave the worst seem to “get religion” in their twenties and decide to “make the streets safe” from little shits like they used to be.
Its summer , these little punks are out in full force bored with nothing to do. I agree why not make them with plexiglass?
Metro Transit should just stop replacing them.
One of the bus stops near my place is routinely smashed, which is ridiculous, but I try to remind myself that maybe smashing a bus stop means they’re refraining from smashing car windows or graffiti-ing everything in sight. Not that it’s any better I guess…
“the same pane of glass at the lacewood terminal is always smashed”
It is? I live across street and use that terminal everyday. I’ve never noticed.
What about something like this? There have been no buses in this area for about 15 years and the shelter is still in pretty good shape, aside from cosmetic repairs that have obviously been done…
http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&…
dgaf: it’s the pane of glass in the shelter on the right if you’re on willet looking on the shelters — it’s actually either the panes on the right side of THAT shelter that’s usually smashed. There was a period of like 8 or 9 months where MT just didn’t replace it. And as soon as they did (like a week later) it was smashed again.
One thing I will say though, is in the winter the shelter in front of my building gets smashed from the plough quite a bit. but in the summer you know it’s some drunken fucktards because there are always smashed cooler bottles around the broken shelter.
Oh, and you might not’ve noticed, dgaf because the glass is usually cleaned up — and you only really notice it if you look right at it. I had to put my hand through it one day because I couldn’t tell if there was glass there or not 😛
Thanks abc123 for your answer to my question.
Where I come from, bus stop walls were made of wood. I never saw one being torched, but I guess around here you’d have to worry about that too. Not to mention the possibility of us having to see more bus bitches about bus drivers not picking up people because they couldn’t see them waiting. I mean…it seems like even if you ARE waiting for a bus, some bus drivers choose not to pick you up depending on the mood.
LTWWB forum sometimes makes me feel like I have moved to a crazy city, and not in a good way.