No mood killer like nighttime bus mood killer. If inspectors are gonna keep checking buses, and if prices are this high, then they better be on damn time. A bus being late by three minutes can delay my getting home by forty minutes.
That’s not worth ten bucks a day.
EDIT: Yup, won’t be home until 11. Bus is that late. Fuck PTV.
Every damn time, they surround me like I’m gonna do a runner. For God’s sake, I’m 70kg soaking wet, I’m neither a flight risk nor a violence one. Meanwhile the methhead up the back of a bus never gets a second look, even though he’s threatened four people today.
That’s because you’re less likely to hurt them and also be intimated by them at the same time and likely they get a power trip from intimidating people who can’t fight back.
Moment they see they can get hurt by someone erratic they go running away like cowards.
It’s fucking cold out there too! It feels like there’s no quality control of the service, only customer compliance. Did you pay for the shitty service? No? Then we won’t attack the shitty service, just you. Are you on a bus now or still waiting?
Finally on a bus, but fuck me that was a long (and cold) wait.
It really is shite, you’d think it’d be an easy fix too; each inspector costs 100k a year, drop them and the ticketing system and it’s quite likely it’d break even (also, y’know, it’s a public service. I already pay for it out of my taxes, why am I getting double-charged?)
It’s definitely insane how expensive buses are relative to the quality of service. I’ve relied on PT for most of my adult life but I won’t lie, I don’t miss it for the most part over here.
No mood killer like nighttime bus mood killer. If inspectors are gonna keep checking buses, and if prices are this high, then they better be on damn time. A bus being late by three minutes can delay my getting home by forty minutes.
That’s not worth ten bucks a day.
EDIT: Yup, won’t be home until 11. Bus is that late. Fuck PTV.
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Nope, but here’s a $300 fine, as well as treatment as if you’re a criminal, for not being able to afford a $10 daily fare for our fucked PT system
Don’t even need to be fined to be treated like a criminal by them.
I remember my last run in with them 20 years ago and it seems they haven’t done a thing to change their conduct all those years.
Every damn time, they surround me like I’m gonna do a runner. For God’s sake, I’m 70kg soaking wet, I’m neither a flight risk nor a violence one. Meanwhile the methhead up the back of a bus never gets a second look, even though he’s threatened four people today.
That’s because you’re less likely to hurt them and also be intimated by them at the same time and likely they get a power trip from intimidating people who can’t fight back.
Moment they see they can get hurt by someone erratic they go running away like cowards.
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It’s fucking cold out there too! It feels like there’s no quality control of the service, only customer compliance. Did you pay for the shitty service? No? Then we won’t attack the shitty service, just you. Are you on a bus now or still waiting?
Finally on a bus, but fuck me that was a long (and cold) wait.
It really is shite, you’d think it’d be an easy fix too; each inspector costs 100k a year, drop them and the ticketing system and it’s quite likely it’d break even (also, y’know, it’s a public service. I already pay for it out of my taxes, why am I getting double-charged?)
It’s definitely insane how expensive buses are relative to the quality of service. I’ve relied on PT for most of my adult life but I won’t lie, I don’t miss it for the most part over here.