Mass transit FFFUUUU
Posted Dec 8, 2010, 10:43 PM UTC
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Fellow Pittsburgher? I feel your pain. Why, just the other day I was ranting how the 71A is supposed to come every 10 minutes but does a piss-poor job of it.
And it's true, they ALWAYS show up at the same time, ALL late. WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM
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this is the bus i use (one of 3 possible options) occasionally to get to uni. Usually i start walking because it's so fucking unreliable, half the time i get to school (25ish minute walk) before i see any busses.
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I see your Pittsburgh and raise you a Toronto.
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They cancelled 59U last year. It was the most unpredictable bus. We had a thing in CMU where we would bet how late the bus would be running when we needed it
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Pittsburgh Port Authority? Don't forget about having to remember whether or not you have to pay when you get on the bus.
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Ugh, this. I know that it's pay when you get off when it's outbound, I just don't know why.
This gets excruciatingly painful during peak hours when the bus is full of people standing.
pull bus handle to get off at stop
"Back door please?"
"PAY AS YOU GET OFF LOL"
as I push and shove my way past people to get to the front
bus passes my stop
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One time I asked the driver if that was for buses that leave downtown by 7pm or if it is currently after 7pm and he almost murdered me. They really don't like questions.
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This has to do with the golden triangle downtown. They want to decrease the number of cars in downtown Pittsburgh so they made public transit free if you get on and off inside a defined area downtown.
Everyone pays on the way off for outbound buses because any bus that goes through downtown during its route could never be sure that a rider paid when they got on. Similarly, you always pay when getting onto an inbound bus because its not possible for there to be any Golden Triangle freeloaders on the bus.
The back door policy is legitimately retarded, but thankfully many of bus drivers (in my experience) don't actually follow it by opening the back door outside of downtown and for packed/pay-off buses.
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Inbound to city = pay when you get on
Outbound = pay when you get off
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This only applies to some buses, and at different times
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Why would any busing system do this??
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because we are the world champions, duh!
Sixburgh!
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I'm a student so I just have to show my ID. They still get pissed if you show it at the wrong time, like it took any extra time...
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Fucking PAT. Happens to me all the time too
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I see those buses are from Pittsburgh. I feel your pain.
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Has anyone seen the 59U? Been waiting all day
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They all stop and hang out and smoke & have lunch together and such. Bus drivers are, on the whole, a bunch of lazy simpletons who form unions and get paid $60K a year to drive a bus around.
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Alternatively, it's impossible to actually schedule busses accurately after the first stop because of things like traffic and not knowing how many people will get on and off at each stop. I was actually talking to someone the other day who had done research in how to deal with these sorts of problems. The bus drivers might be lazy, but this could happen even if they weren't.
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u jelly?
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A bus driver in wisconsin was recently revealed to be making over 100k a year
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Well, I knew I was understating it. These stories come up on reddit all the time ... there was some mall cop in Mass. somewhere that was making $120K a year when he got caught for sexually harassing some patrons. Every 6 months, there is a BART strike here in San Fran, and the train operators who are already making $100K+ a year want a salary increase for sitting on their butts and pressing some buttons. Awesome.
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It's supposed to be .
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Story of my life bud
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raegs for a fellow Pittburgher
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this exact thing happened to me last night. SO MUCH RAGE
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That regularly happened to me in London.
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having lived in both london and pittsburgh, let me assure you, pittsburgh busses are much much worse.
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You left off the part where all 4 of them pass you because they're stuffed to overflowing with people.
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