Why do I have to pay to travel home on an overcrowded, late running, clapped out bus, driven by a wannabe rally driver? Why? Well, yes I could walk, ride a bike, take a taxi even but I choose to bus. Today I couldn’t decide whether to be grumpy with the driver, my fellow passengers or the sadist who came up with the timetable.
It was 6.30pm – hardly peak commuting time. The bus was late, 15 minutes late which puts it half way between the time it should have arrived and the next bus. It was packed, well at least the front two thirds of the bus was. Sure enough, the very back of the bus had empty seats no-one could get to thanks to standing passengers who were “getting off at the next stop” but surprise surprise still on the bus when I got off. This bus route never NEVER never runs on time. And of course it only gets later and later as every stop brings a passenger who decided to grill the driver over his/her tardiness – as if that’s going to help the rest of us.
Then there’s the usual problem of Stagecoach Wellington bus drivers who drive as though they are on a racetrack. It would be entertaining were we to be all seated with the safety of a seatbelt. Treating the standing passengers like dominoes to be toppled at every stop is not my idea of entertainment.
May 17, 2008 at 12:38 pm
The reason I take the bus daily is because the cheap fare..Or else, I would have go for taxi instead of bus..