Holy jumpin’ jeebus on a trampoline! Wtf is wrong with this ass-backwards city and why is there the need to change the name on the buses from Metro to Halifax transit? HRM consists of many communities (not just Halifax); the name “Metro” covers this. This is a blatant waste of taxpayers dollars and should be shot down. —Bluenoser again
This article appears in Jul 10-16, 2014.
I’m sure the users outside of the Metro area will feel better about using the service.
waste of money
Rebranding is a very expensive process – and guess who’s gonna pay? The same tax base who picks up the tab for every provincial government restructuring and rebranding efforts. Logos don’t grow on trees, although maybe they should, judging from what they charged for that new, unimaginative eyesore.
As far as logos go, haligonia did a much better job on theirs without having to borrow a Samsung ‘A’: http://haligonia.ca/halifax-ns-news/about-…
Just where is thes H^LIF^X place , anyhow?
It’s in Dartmouth Ivan, somewhere near Albro Lake…
Directly above the centre of the earth, where else?
Because politicians and city staff have to come up with more ways to spend more of our money. Maybe they’ll take the old stationary and use it to fill in the potholes.
Not even all the buses have GPS and now they’re spending $3-4k apiece to fucking paint them???? actual FUNCTION over aesthetics, you morons!
Seriously… take their subsidized fucking SUV’s away and MAKE them use transit.
We’d have an efficient system in place a whole lot fucking quicker.
The age old bureaucratic nonsense – when you are circling the toilet give some money to a design outfit (who likely is ‘in’ with someone along the political / bureaucratic food chain) to ‘re-brand’, refocus. blah-blah-blah. Mostly just an excuse to spend money and make people think all is well with shiny new signs, new stationery and paint jobs on vehicles etc, not to mention to try and deflect the public from the fact that the place is still the same old place no matter what. Better they (City and Transit) beef up safety at the various bus terminals and on buses before jazzing up the paint on the peon wagons. Be BOLD indeed – ha, if we had really been BOLD there would have been more new faces on Council after the last election. Though some of the new ones have slid into the old ways fairly quickly. Such as spending tax $$$ on frou-frou. Most people in other places, let alone in this town, do not give a flying **** about new logos, slogans etc. for the municipality. Trite slogans / brands etc. have never prompted me to visit other places and spend money. It is the vibe, stores, amenities etc. that have done that.
what a stupid freaking idea. what a waste of my money.
I hate that, I just hate it. I want my taxes to pay for roads, transportation for all, schools stuff like that
NO fact finding junkets for politicians or their flunkies. (ever heard of Skype for christs sake?) no re-branding.
buy & paint our goddamn lighthouses you idiots!
fill in the potholes!
put bus service on prospect road!
make signs that make sense to someone who wasn’t born here.
get a working cannon in all the forts and re enact battles
have beat cops all over downtown on weekend nights so the drunk kids don’t get hurt.
crap, there are so many things you could be spending money on but renaming the damn buses is just stupid.
As a good friend would say….Great Codswollops!!!!
A name change? Are you kidding me?
My first question is: Where did this magical money come from that won’t cost transit users or people’s property taxes to go up?
I remember not too long ago when the transit strike inconvenienced all of us to no end, with the deposed mayor of the time along with the so-called director saying that there is no MONEY.
Did they?
1/ Put a counterfeit money machine at the back of transit to pay $4000 a bus to re-brand? How much for a slinky bus, may I ask?
2/ Are they collecting royalties from the oil they are drilling on-site at the garage to pay for this?
3/ Pull a surprise increase in bus fares on unsuspecting Haligonians to pay for this?
In a time for fiscal restraint for our city, these clowns obviously don’t know what that means…It means no new spending with money you DON’T have.
I believe the only ones who need re-branding and banishment from public eye are the ones who came up with this ludicrous, laughable idea. I can see I’m going to get hosed on my property taxes because of this fiasco, but then again, with transit, I’m not surprised.
Here’s the thing – it’s not only buses they have to paint: EVERYTHING needs to be rebranded. New uniforms need to be bought for the entire staff of driver and supervisors, new branding on all those fancy SUVs the supervisors drive around (why do they need SUVs? Ford fucking Tempos worked fine for years), new stop signs need to be installed (which, were just replaced fairly recently), new print material needs to be designed, new branding at terminals needs to be installed, new passes and tickets need to be designed and printed… and if I recall correctly, all buses have been repainted with a new Metro Transit logo about 7-8 years ago…. They’re basically rebranding twice in less than a decade!
You bet your arse fares will go up to $2.75 for adults and will cost at least another $5 for a pass this time next year – with no improvements to the system (it’s 2014 and the fleet isn’t even fully equipped with GPS)….
This is so fucking stupid.
Believe me, I was thinking about this for over a half hour yesterday when I was at the FIRST stop at a terminal 8 minutes early and it…
SURPRISE…
just didn’t show up.
I had 38 minutes to stew over this.
You can’t dip a piece of shit in icing sugar and call it a doughnut.
There! That’s the new name for the city: Codswollops. The logo will contain fish and wallops.
Zed – was this on your way home? If so, the bus didn’t just not show up – traffic was FUCKED yesterday because the MacKay was closed around 4:30pm because of a 4 car MVA.
It took 40 minutes to get from Scotia Square to Robie on the bus… the overpass was clear sailing because there was no one coming off the MacKay.
But, it still took an hour and 20 minutes to get from Scotia Square to Lacewood. Hopefully it won’t suck as much today because I have to wait for the later bus.
Mr. Meaty is my write in candidate, next election. I like the cut of his jib.
*No Montrealman, that’s not a circumcision joke*
*stands at attention with hat in hand at the Codswollops flag*
Is there an anthem?
I’m rather partial to using “London Calling” with Codswallops in place of london.
But I’m open to suggestions.
I vote ‘Bikini Girls with Machine Guns’ for the Codswallops’ anthem…
..doesn’t have anything to do with anything, but a great tune nonetheless and an anthem of a pretty young punkabilly nation……yup, that works 😉
Happy Codswallops Pride!
I was taking the 6 that doesn’t even go near the bridges… it just must have been a bus coming off another route that did ffs. Pretty shitty when a single accident screws up an entire city’s traffic.
What a great idea! We should rebrand everything every year, that way nothing gets stale or boring.
And a very Happy Codswallops Pride to you as well, Mr. M.
See y’all at the Kathleen Wynne Look-Alike contest tonight.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IXQWLN6VZ-s/U78G…
Wow, some of those guys really want to win.
Wasted money and how. They also want to change every manhole cover in the HRM, we’re talking a lot of money for something we drive over and don’t really see. Use the money wisely instead. Maybe they should be using this money to like improve this city? How about a couple of thousand bus shelters where there still are none? Replacing manhole covers? Hopefully they melt them down and use the same metal to remake the new ones, but somehow I doubt that.
Yours truly.
I agree, Wheels, maybe they can use that forge you have in your basement. They could do it one manhole cover at a time, that way they can re-use the caution tape they would have to put up around the missing covers. It’s too bad you weren’t on city council, it would be refreshing to finally have some good, well thought out suggestions.