If you are standing at a bus stop by yourself and you see a bus attempting to pull over for you, please shake your head for the driver or wave the driver on if it is not the bus you intend to take. Can you imagine how much more efficient transit could be if bus drivers didn’t have to pull over for someone who won’t even look up from reading their paper? How is this not just common sense??? I don’t know how the bus drivers are able to refrain from hopping off the bus and punching you douchebags in the throat. —Ijustwanttogethomeasquickaspossible
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Common sense isn’t a blessing, it’s a curse .. because you have to deal with all the douchebags who don’t have it!
Ummmm, wasn’t the person reading the paper? As they did not indicate they wanted this bus the driver was not obligated to stop. Perhaps your anger should be directed toward the hemmorhoid-packing conductor of the people carrier who pulls over for persons clearly not in need of this particular route.
“How is this not just common sense???”
Well THERE’S your problem.
Perhaps the passenger wasn’t scheduled to shake his head at that particular hour. Hay, us transit users aren’t about to surrender the rights we’ve fought so hard for. >; )
It’s kind of nice to see the regular old bus bitches back.
Sounds like he wasted valuable seconds.
or maybe we should have check-in terminals where you select which route you want to get on… which relays wirelessly to the oncoming buses until the correct one shows up and is told to stop. Once detected, the system resets that route until someone selects it again…
problem solved….
and then fares would be 7 bucks a pop.
I just feel stupid shaking my head and then the bus stops anyways to let someone off.
in many cities you must signal the coming driver that you want that bus – usually by sticking your arm out. We missed a bus in Miami that way until someone came by who explained how it worked.
until then, I shake my head and step away from the stop. then again, I have common sense….call me crazy
Yeah, this wastes valuable seconds. Mind you, It’ll take more than a few of those to make up for every time the driver decides to just fuck off on a bus jammed with people for a sandwich, smoke, and a coffee.
Oh for Shit Sake now there is A Waiting for the Bus Etiquette.
to quote seb, people using the loser cruisers have no brains, neither do the ones waiting, it seems.
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I agree with Koda, if he was reading the paper , the driver shouldn’t have stopped.
There is a difference between proactively nodding at a driver and passively reading a paper.
We are expected to be mind readers it seems. Then there are those that hold up a wall and watch the bus I’m driving approaching and make no move toward the bus stop, and as I pass by the stop they then start waving and hollering and running… WTF! Mind reading would be an asset for this job. I am constantly amazed at the total egocentricity of most of today’s population. If you don’t want to be left behind people, make like you want the bus! One youth got on my bus last summer and complained that a previous driver drove past him and did not stop. I noticed the bench close to the stop and asked the boy if he was sitting on the bench when the bus came by. He said yes. I then asked him if he stood up and appoached the bus stop as the bus came near. He said no. So I told him,” that is why you got left behind. If you get up and approach the bus stop you let the driver know you want the bus. We do not have the time to guess if you want this bus or not”. Sad that so many people think we are mind readers, or that we should automatically know who wants the bus and who doesn’t. How many different buses travel up and down Spring Garden road? More than one I dare say. Make like you want the bus. Common sense goes a long way!
To the few people who feel stupid nodding” no” to the driver only to have the bus stop anyway to let someone off, don’t. We appreciate you so very much and I usually open my front doors even if the person got off the back door and say ” thank you, we appreciate it”.
In quite a few cities that I’ve been too (and these are cities where bus schedules seem to actually work), riders don’t signal either way. Buses just stop at all stops. It’s built into the schedule. Maybe that’s why their schedules actually work?
So you know for a fact that that it’s built into the shedule? That would certainly help, but then you have those who start asking what bus was the one that just went buy ahead of mine, or when will the next (put in bus # here) be coming by, or my friend is coming can you wait? only to find out this friend is still in a store. This actually happened to me. And people wonder why we cannot keep our shedules. I have also been to other cities and if you don’t make a move toward the bus stop you’ll be seeing the back of the bus driving by.
I’m shocked that after 19 posts no one has demanded the over paid bus drivers should be mind readers. After all anyone can drive a bus…I believe in every comment section in every publication I read there were comments to that effect , they’re over paid, uneducated, anyone can do it & fire the lot of them so all the unemployed people could be hired for $15 bucks an hour seemed to be the concensus. Seems to me if mind reading is a requirement, the psychic’s should all be heading to Metro Transits offices & letting the management team know about their ability to read minds…. maybe then the scheduals would work out , no one would ever get left behind & every one should then be happy ~;p
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