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Post by thechase on Nov 13, 2019 14:45:14 GMT -5
Please someone like this post so that when I have a keyboard I am reminded to come back and burn buses to the ground.SETH!
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Nov 13, 2019 15:33:27 GMT -5
Some days I'm lucky if the one I take to work even turns up, it frequently just disappears from the departures board without even arriving. Last week I ended up waiting in the freezing cold for half an hour for a bus that never came, and the one after was being driven by this cretin who stopped in the wrong bay, let one passenger on, and then decided that all the others needed to walk to the next bay and get on there. Then after crawling through the rush hour traffic, he proceeds to drive straight through my stop and the one after it, before someone asked him to let them off at a junction. So a two minute walk from the bus stop to work took ten minutes.
If it wasn't up an extremely steep hill it would be easier (and quicker) to just walk it.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Nov 14, 2019 9:35:00 GMT -5
Well, if Thomas and Bertie would stop having all these damn races, the timetables might be a little better.
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Post by Square on Nov 14, 2019 14:37:04 GMT -5
Trains are much, MUCH worse
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Post by paulbearer on Nov 14, 2019 22:01:08 GMT -5
Elvis : "Train aaa-rive , six-teen coaches long"
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 30, 2019 8:19:08 GMT -5
Hey! Sorry it took me so long to come back. I am a big fan of public transport, conceptually. I think we need way more of it everywhere in this country, but that'd be getting too much into politics if I went into it. However. I can't drive. I never wanted to as a teenager, as I wasn't interested in the mobility (introverted kid) or the social currency (autistic nerd also). I then lived in places with bus links for pretty much my whole life, and I am now super f***ing reliant on them, and just recently I have started finding that BUSES. ARE. BULLSHIT.Here, in no real sane order, is why. {Spoiler}{Spoiler} I worked at a provider of bus passes in a rural county, we would work with the local bus firms to provide them to students. There was precisely one route between two of the biggest towns in the area, and it was the only route we worked with that bus company for. It shut down with zero warning. On a Thursday. They didn't contact us, they just said that at the conclusion of their routes that night, the company was done, in an announcement on their website that they informed nobody of. So that was fun, f*** those guys. I understand being in real problems, but not informing anybody about this shit?? Not even a mass email?
I am 6'2". I have thought for most of my life thought of myself as not being particularly tall, because my brother is 6'5" and I grew up watching wrestling, where everyone was enormous. But it turns out that 5'9" is actually the average height of a man in the UK, so no wonder I CANNOT FIT INTO A SINGLE GODDAMN SEAT on the majority of buses, and I have to usually hope that I will be able to have two seats to myself so I can sit at a 45 degree angle. I take two buses to work and two back from work, but sometimes these days I will choose to take the longer-winded route with an extra 15 minutes of walking just so I can be more likely to get a goddamn seat to myself.
Of course, that's also partly because sometimes I cannot be bothered with the hassle of changing buses in the middle, because either or both of them can be late or not exist. Multiple times in the past six weeks, the second bus I wait for showed up 15-20 minutes late, with a sign on the front saying it was full and couldn't take any more passengers. This shit can be enough to ruin your day before it's really started.
ROADWORKS. It seems like this place is CONSTANTLY being renovated somewhere, and it only takes one corner in one part of town to have roadworks being done to f*** the buses completely with hour-long delays across the whole town. At the moment, there are roadworks just outside my house and just outside my place of work, and a third lot in the centre of town between them, so... there is no escape. None.
But maybe all of that wouldn't be so bad.
But then there's the people.
I love the town in which I live now more than any I have yet lived in. But for some reason, the traditional British queueing culture for buses just doesn't f***ing apply, and no matter when you show up for the bus, there is just a mass rush for the door rather than any kind of politeness about who showed up first. This may sound like a petty gripe, but I'm just getting started.
People are also f***ing morons. I've established above that my bus routes are often jam-packed, and I've lost count of the number of times I have ended up stood up in the crowded bit at the front of the bus, entirely because people are too much of an asshole to sit 1. at the back 2. upstairs or 3. next to somebody they don't know, or because people on those seats have their bags on the seat next to them and refuse to move them.
You've also got to love the guys who manspread, because it is obviously impossible to sit with your legs together if you have a penis, so you have to sit basically bow-legged. And then I'm basically sat next to them with one cheek on the chair and one in the goddamn aisle.
And that's all just day-to-day assholery, you can deal with that, maybe. Then it gets worse. One of my co-workers is in an electric wheelchair, and I am delighted to say of the drivers of the buses that they always treat him with the utmost respect, putting the ramp down for him to get on and off without a hint of irritation. However I have seen people mockingly pretend to have a disability for a second, as a ha ha funny joke with the person they're with that they could just skip the queue that way.
But I think the single thing, the one thing that I can point to that I think gives an indication of what bullshit people are on the bus, is in my home town - where I went home to visit, and I saw a sign. I can't remember the wording for it, but it said something to the effect of 'our drivers do not deserve to be spat at.'
Specifically spitting.
I could understand a general sign talking about the drivers don't deserve to be abused, or that anti-social behaviour won't be tolerated, but spitting specifically? There was enough of a problem in my home city, that the local councils had to allocate funding, to an awareness campaign with publicity on the buses saying please stop spitting at the drivers???
And then the worst part for me personally is that, as someone who wishes the world was more empathetic, I am so overwhelmingly aware of all the reasons why the above shit happens - the roads are bad and the councils underfunded, the routes don't get enough funding to run enough buses, you never know what a rude person on a bus has been through that day - that I can't even feel a bit of righteous hot rage about something without thinking it's not their fault and just feeling guilty when someone has been an asshole to me.
This may seem like an insane level of annoyance that I can just call on at will for a goddamn online forum post, but there was a point where my commute on public transport ended up being as long as 3 hours in each direction, and it has left me with some kind of irrational flashpoint about this stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2019 8:41:27 GMT -5
Ha! At least you have a competent and effective system, not like the craphole bus line we have to put up with in Indy. It's why I'm now, at the age of 30, finally learning how to drive a gas guzzling waste of metal.
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Post by XIII on Nov 30, 2019 8:43:58 GMT -5
Strangely DC buses aren’t that bad. Metro is even decent these days.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Nov 30, 2019 19:47:07 GMT -5
Of course they will be bad with them being run by this guy: ”Come on you lot, this outdated reference was due out 10 minutes ago!”
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