I’m so glad the buses are running again. I’ve missed so much a bus doing 70+ km/h in a 50 zone roar passed my house all day and night with no one riding it. Buses do roar when they go that fast, likely because no one is on it. The transit system in Halifax blows. Plain and simple. I know how to fix it and attract significantly more ridership, but its too expensive to initiate (even though there’s no extra expense to the rider), and the city won’t accept it. If you’re intrigued, you should be. I bet I can even get fuels prices to drop around the city.
Such is life in this ridiculously “slow to change for the better” city we live in. The most striking evidence that things need to change is in the way we drive our cars. Most people speed. Its a fact. 60 in a 50 is speeding, even though 60 isn’t that fast. All of the traffic lights that govern our directions to and fro are set to just below posted speed limits and behave differently at different times of day for obvious reasons. Did you know that for the majority of routes around a city it is actually less time consuming to drive within the speed limit, than it is to speed. Simple reason. No stopping and starting at traffic lights. Did you know that simply driving within the speed limit would eliminate nearly two-thirds of all traffic jam-ups and slow downs (national statistical average and public knowledge for 32 years).
Yet people, day after day, drive like uncivilized primates from light to light and stop sign to stop sign senselessly. And worse still, along the same routes they’ve been driving for years likely. Have you ever seen a rat run through a maze. Seriously. Can’t you people recognize the similarities. Have any of you actually tried to see the difference or even asked yourself the question?
I won’t rant on the ignorance of society. I won’t say we live in a me-first world. And I certainly won’t say I’m better than anyone else. I’m just sayin’… —Retired Traffic Consultant and Professor of Human Behavioural Sciences
This article appears in Mar 29 – Apr 4, 2012.
Get over yourself.
We already have a pedantic retired academic on staff here and you ain’t him soooooo………
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“I know how to fix it and attract significantly more ridership, but its too expensive to initiate (even though there’s no extra expense to the rider), and the city won’t accept it. If you’re intrigued, you should be. I bet I can even get fuels prices to drop around the city.”
Please run for mayor. Srsly. Throw your hat in the ring and state your platform. Anything’s better than what we have.
“I know how to fix it and attract significantly more ridership, but its too expensive to initiate (even though there’s no extra expense to the rider), and the city won’t accept it. If you’re intrigued, you should be. I bet I can even get fuels prices to drop around the city.”
So how are you going to fix the bueses? You stated you knew how but I don’t see you how to fix it, so please enlighten us!
Alien Technology no doubt. Part of his plan most like involves Anonymous and a Crackerjack NGO Seal Team blasting into an as yet unknown storage facility. Anonymous will find out where the Alien Tech is and the A-Team will break in and get it for us. Our hover-Buses will be the envy of those a-holes in Moncton, they think they’re so big with their U2 show!
Awwwwww…now I wanna be a hover-bus driver!
Wait! … Does that mean I’d have to get a pilot’s license first??
SCREW YOU, MONCTON, YA BUNCHA HERRING CHOKERS!!
You got me cracking up at my desk Vastman.
or you can just take the routes with the fewest left turns and lights possible. I don’t consider many intersections where I need to turn right a stop at all…. since most have that decently dedicated turn lane.
just this past weekend, I took the ol’ conch shell route strategy and flew there in no time.
I can fix all those problems too. Fire all the city planners, MT management, and city councillors! Replace them with ambitious team players that get payed a performance based salary, instead of the gravy sponges we have now. Problem solved!!!
I have to completely agree with you OP, you are no better than anybody else.
A roaring bus? Try living in Jurassic Park, OB, you whiny monkey.
yeah, ain’t it a fucking joy o.p., bet you wish for santa too.