This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
Twin City Management, Clean Up Your Act
I can’t believe how you get away with ignoring your tenants’ requests, yet you’re willing to cash our rent cheques every month without a second thought.I’m sick of living in an apartment building where things don’t get fixed.As for the Super… Get o
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I got an idea. How about we break your neck and put you in a wheelchair. Then you’d get the special treament and you too could get a guaranteed spot on the bus. Spend a day strapped in a wheelchair and see how “inconvenienced” you are. I have no problem with these wheelchair bound people who use metro transit. It’s a means of freedom which you take for granted.
You are an asshole..But i totally agree with you. I was on the 14, going to Dal, and I was 15 minutes late for school, because someone got on, and needed to be strapped in and such and then she got off..
I hate to agree but I do. Everyone wants the world to be as accessible as possible for everyone out there but the wheelchair folks have to have some common decency as well and understand that they are screwing with 40+ other people by doing things like this.To relate another similar incident, I’ve been basically pushed out of a grocery isle by people in those little motorized buggy things and had another incident where the “driver” of one basically wouldn’t get out of the way on a sidewalk and forced me off on to the street. Are people free of disabilities now acceptable targets for rudeness?
Y’all are gonna burn in hell. I hope you’ve got a ton of money saved so that you can get into one of the “good nursing homes”…
It’s a nasty opinion, but true.They have their own busses so that the rest of the population won’t be inconvenienced (paid for by our tax dollars?), they should use them.
My issue isn’t waiting for a person in a wheelchair, but the fact that the city bought poorly designed buses in the first place. There are far too many seats on the newer buses (square with amber route signs) intended to fold back for wheelchair access. I’ve seen these used a total of one time. Meanwhile, the bus has far fewer seats than it should, causing them to be grossly overcrowded when used on any reasonably busy route. Making room for those that need wheelchair access is a good thing, but the city should purchase buses built to a practical standard.
ummmm, ahhh….it doesn’t take 15 minutes….wow what a bunch of selfish pricks….I’ve seen it and it takes 5 minutes tops….also if drivers get too far behind schedule they generally try to make it up….but wow, this bitch is mind boggling in it’s sheer fucked-upedness….
OK, folks, never mind the political incorrectness of all this… but the Access-a-Bus gripe is something else again. Why not just use Access-a-Bus, many of you ask? Because it has to be booked IN ADVANCE, because sometimes BOOKINGS GET LOST AND NO BUS COMES, because it, too is NOT FREE (‘paid for by our tax dollars?’ nope). For people who leave only exactly enough time to get from home (or wherever) to job interview or school (or wherever)… let’s hope that you’re never on a bus when it’s held up by a traffic accident! Good grief! Try to schedule a little better! And as for the original poster who compared “crippled asses” to “normal people,” well, heaven help you if YOU ever have to use a wheelchair! What a shitty, uncharitable, intolerant attitude! I suppose you also have a problem with curbs that are wheelchair accessible? And doorways in shopping malls that have buttons to make them open so that people using wheelchairs can get in and out of a mall without help? (Because clearly, YOU’RE not gonna hold the door, you miserable excuse for a human being!)
I don’t mind waiting if a disabled person is getting on the bus but if you were pressed for time ie:interview then it would get a person a bit irate. Even feeling this I would not say this is on my bitch list at all. You never know what could happen to any of us. I or you could easlily be a passenger on the bus and need to be assisted by the driver to be strapped in.
There are may of those landlords around. What you need to do is:Write a letter of the list of things that need to be done alopng with the date you expect them to be repaired. If on that day you haven’t seen anything done then tell them you are going to file a complaint with the tenancy board. They usually hear you then to avoid the court proceeding. Good Luck!
I would like to commend you on being that much of an asshole. Truly good work. Many of us part-time, fair-weather assholes could learn a thing or two.
Not only are you an asshole but incredibly stupid to boot ! you see the issue as being “them” against “you”. People have various degrees of disability, not all have the need for a “door-to-door” service of Access-a-bus, Hrm has made it possible for some to be able to use public transit when they want to, not have to book two weeks in advance to go to blockbusters, sobey’s etc. If its holding back your whirlwind lifestyle get on the earlier bus and grow some fucking sense too.
by the grace of destiny/god/allah/or what ever you may beleive that will not ever end up the “crippled” who “delays” the bus. OMFG!!!! it’s inconvenient to stop and eat, to feed your kids, to take a shit, bascially everything can be inconvenient if you let it! FUCKING BE HAPPY YOU NOT IN SOUTH AFRICA DYING OF AIDS OR WHAT EVER….
You are one selfish asshole. The Access A Bus has to be booked TWO WEEKS in advance. It takes no more than five minutes to strap a wheelchair into place on the # 14 bus. Persons with disabilities have the right to use public transit. This just makes me sick. If you are that inconvienced by a person using a wheelchair, then leave early. There are hundreds of inaccessible buildings in this city that cause endless inconvience to people who use wheelchairs. Your bitch is minor in relation to the inconvience faced by people with disabilities. Those low-floor buses have been introduced so that people who use wheelchairs can travel around the city and go to appointments, school or whatever, without having to book the Access A Bus TWO WEEKS in advance. Jerk!
Wow.. I know some scumbags.. but you take the cake. It takes 5 minutes maximum to get strapped into the bus. Also, you have to book the Access-A-Bus 2 weeks in advance, and it is not paid for by the government. You were late for your interview? At McDonalds? Because you clearly are the most uneducated, ignorant dirtbag that I have ever heard of. Get some time management skills. I don’t mind waiting a couple minutes for those less fortunate than me. I truly hope that you don’t have to face the horror of having to rely on a wheelchair to get around everywhere, you SOB.
Ride a bike or walk for cryin’ out loud. I’ve ridden a bike all thru the winter(even in snow) and walked a good hour to work each way because I cannot stand the freakin’ bus. It’s crowded, smelly, filled with crazy people, and rarely on time. I would sooner trust myself to get where I need to go (i know how much time i’ll take! Plus it’s free), than trust the horrid, jerky buses anyday. People are just lazy now, and would sooner complain about what someone else isn’t doing for them, than take responsiblity for themselves. So I say, put on a pair of sweats, grab a cheap walkman and RUN or RIDE into work/school. You’ll feel better for it
I don’t mind wheelchairs on the bus. It’s the fat chicks that scare me, especially when their butts start beeping as the lower toward the seat, always next to me! One of these days they’ll find me mummified in a canyon-sized ass-crack, smothered by stretch pants.
You must be talking about Summerset plaza
Instead of polarizing the situation, I think a reasonable compromise can be reached that would accomodate most people. It’s a given that most of the disabled are seniors and they make up the bulk of the population in HRM and must be occomodated. Having said that however, I think that there should be clear guidelines set in that seniors (who are mostly retirees), should try to arrange their travel plans to fit within non-peak traffic hours (morning and evening rush hours) if at all possible. It might also help if medical clinics and hospital test fascilities would book seniors (retirees) appointments in time slots between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm and leave the early morning and late afternoon time slots open for people who work f/t so they do not lose too much time at work. There will obviously be exceptions to this rule (not all of the disabled are elderly and a lot of younger disabled people work 8-4), but at least the burden would be less if something like this idea was worked out.
Go to one of the events listed in the coast for tenants’ legal advice. I have heard that you can legally pay your rent to the tenancy board instead of paying it to your landlord until the problems are fixed. Look into your legal options, that’s the only way this problem will change.
your bus, their bus??, 20 minutes??plan ahead asshole, take an earlier bus 4 things @ importnat @ an interview& 2 the rest of u assholes that say things like ‘they have their own buses’ r u aware of the state of the accessa a bus program, u dont want 2 b inconvienenced? lobby the govt 2 spend less on military recruitment videos & more on social programs and/or make a donation urselfwe live in a society, it is made of up a varity of people, we r equal
holy fuck, if karma exists, you have just sealed your fate to be come one of those ‘crippled asses’ who dare have the audacity to venture out into the world and take advantage of such luxuories as public transportation that only WE, the privilaged ones with use of our legs should be allowed to use…i see your future, you are destined to die alone and legless you nasty fuckwit!
Yes … the original poster is an asshole. Probably the biggest one. The people who agreed with him … assholes too. What kind of world do we live in where this has become an inconvenience? Are we always in such a hurry that a few minutes for someone less fortunate than ourselves is too much time?This post made me sad when I read it. Not just for the miserable state of the city and the people in it, but for the handicapped people who have to read all of these comments and possibly feel less a part of society than they already do.
ok. for all you jerks who’s solution is to get on an earlier bus, you must not be bus users. because you can’t always just do that. the bus schedule is SHIT. sure the 1 comes every 10 mins and thats super if you’re bussing around downtown, but if you live outside the city and need to take a bus it’s once every half hour AT BEST. so suggestions like, “plan a little better” are bullshit. you’re already planning a little better by taking the fucking bus because it is never where you need it to be when you need to be there. you’re either 25 mins early or 5 mins late. and i have also waited on a bus for at least 15 mins while bus drivers struggle with strapping in a wheelchair. as much as you feel like an asshole complaining about it, its true. when you’re sitting there waiting, and you have someplace to be, its frustrating. it’s the same as the morons who stop busses just to stand in the door to ask a million questions about where that bus goes. its the waiting that pisses you off. not the wheelchair user.
Anonymous Asshole must be having agood laugh at how easily you’veall been suckered into reactingto his obviously bogus bitch.Good one Anonymous.Keep’em comin’.
I see both points… It is a pain to have to wait for someone to be strapped into a bus with too few seats (and for those of you saying “take an earlier bus” HELLO!! The 66 only runs every hour, and every half hour during rush hour… I’d rather NOT leave for work an hour early THANK YOU! And that’s just one example)… And yes, booking two weeks in advanced is a pain in the ass, which is why perhaps the Access-A-Bus should perhaps change its policy…
I don’t think the person who wrote this spiteful rant was joking. If some anonymous coward were to write a rant about blacks being allowed on a bus, the Coast would in all liklihood refuse to print it. But here we are, 50 years after Rosa Parks stood up for the right to ride on a public bus, arguing about whether disabled persons have the right to do so. The introduction of low floor buses by HRM was a major step forward for those who use wheelchairs who, by the way, attend job interviews and go to classes just as the able-bodied posters who whine and bitch about having to wait a few minutes while someone gets strapped in. I hate to say this, but the anonymous bitcher deserves some big-time negative karma in his life. Maybe he will change his tune if a family member becomes disabled. It can happen to anyone, at any time.
I am a cripple. I have a debilitating disease which inhibits my abilities physically if I must be politically correct.Perhaps the inconvienience is really helping this other person arrive to their class ontime? Or perhaps work? Maybe it’s the system the HRM uses to coordinate the bus schedule. Perhaps it doesn’t coordinate an adequate system for you and your inability to take an earier bus “or walk yourself”, since you’re so able to do so when A PERSON IN A WHEELCHAIR OBVIOUSLY DOES NOT.Think about it and send me a shout if you need to convince me of otherwise # ageyd123@yahoo.ca
plan ahead and leave room for shit to happen, are you an adult? you know what the real world is? fucking deal with it. your mentality leaves you in the same league as people who talk about reverse racism and an equal society. seriously fuck you, I hope some day you and everyone else who agreed with you gains some perspective because we all live in this world together and no one was born to work around your schedual, this is your life and it’s your job to get places not other people’s job not to inconvenience you.
Ass hole!!!!!
Just think all the years my tax dollars paid for buses I could not use – the years my tax dollars paid for buildings I could not get in – The years my tax dollars paid for schools I could not go to – The years my tax dollars paid for sidewalks with no or bad curb cuts – The years my tax dollars paid for public recreation facilities and programs not open to me – The years my tax dollars paid for trains I still cannot use – The years my tax dollars paid for medical devices for certain persons such as pace makers but would not pay for my wheelchair.I am really ashamed that I have not done enough for persons without disabilities. I only wish I had more to give.
OoooOOOOO!! I wonder why as well!!!I have an idea!!!!! Lets break your back, and you try being in a wheelchair for the rest of your life, and then you can do a report on WHY you decided to take the regular buses!! What a great idea!! Then we can understand!!jackass
could you imagine waiting for 2 wheel chairs to be strapped in from different stops…
beware of karma, tough guy
I am heartened to see others are bothered/pissed at your “bitch”, maybe ALL of us are not as fucked as I thought when I read the original post!!!!