The Window War

[Mano]

 

[Shuffler]

That is why they have to ride public.   Too stupid to drive.

[Arlo]

[Puma44]

 

[perdue3]

That is why they have to ride public.   Too stupid to drive.

I ride public all the time. The city pays people to drive and maintain vehicles that take its citizens to and from locations. No parking fees, no uptown traffic to deal with, no BS. There is nothing wrong with public transportation or the intelligence of people that use it. These two people were simply unwilling to compromise which I commend and criticize at the same time.

[Shuffler]

I ride public all the time. The city pays people to drive and maintain vehicles that take its citizens to and from locations. No parking fees, no uptown traffic to deal with, no BS. There is nothing wrong with public transportation or the intelligence of people that use it. These two people were simply unwilling to compromise which I commend and criticize at the same time.

You have to deal with the public on public transportation. Good days and bad days. Public transportation uses the same roads and traffic.

I can turn off or go where I please, when I please.

[Arlo]

You have to deal with the public on public transportation. Good days and bad days. Public transportation uses the same roads and traffic.

I can turn off or go where I please, when I please.

Silver Alert!

[perdue3]

You have to deal with the public on public transportation. Good days and bad days. Public transportation uses the same roads and traffic.

I can turn off or go where I please, when I please.

My point is, a person's wit and intelligence is not measured by their preferred mode of transportation.

[Arlo]

Texas (or various groups, therein) made a political issue over public transport decades ago. City councils and politicians have a tendency to block bills for public transport on the basis of the perception that it would attract people who are lazy, poor and downright socialist. Arlington, Texas, home the Cowboys and the Rangers, will basically build stadiums and parks at no cost to the team owners but refuses to invest one dime in public transport. Traffic becomes nearly unbearable on game days which is an example of why car owners should actually back mass transport there. Never mind the fact that many bus riders don't have the options that car owners do (don't own/can't afford a car/car insurance or due to disability or age can no longer drive, anyway).

Tax dollars. Some people don't want them spent on other people. 

[Shuffler]

Texas (or various groups, therein) made a political issue over public transport decades ago. City councils and politicians have a tendency to block bills for public transport on the basis of the perception that it would attract people who are lazy, poor and downright socialist. Arlington, Texas, home the Cowboys and the Rangers, will basically build stadiums and parks at no cost to the team owners but refuses to invest one dime in public transport. Traffic becomes nearly unbearable on game days which is an example of why car owners should actually back mass transport there. Never mind the fact that many bus riders don't have the options that car owners do (don't own/can't afford a car/car insurance or due to disability or age can no longer drive, anyway).

Tax dollars. Some people don't want them spent on other people. 

Houston has wasted quite a bit on public transportation. Poorly designed and dangerous. 

[Mano]

The two on the bus could have negotiated a compromise: The window half open, or 1/3'rd open, or maybe even 2/3'rds open.
At the very least the other riders on the bus would have enjoyed their conversation.   

Or...... the gentleman could have asked the bus driver to turn on the a/c. I am sure the bus driver would have enjoyed spinning him
up to the front, as explained in the Bus Driver's Training Video. Bob Newhart did a very good job explaining the school's success.

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[Arlo]

Houston has wasted quite a bit on public transportation. Poorly designed and dangerous.

Lubbock, otoh, has the best mass transit I've experienced, so far. Every 15 minutes there's a bus from my apartment to the campus (and buses all over the campus to connect various buildings). And everything connects from the Social Security office to the mall to the grocery store to the liquor stores, etc. For a hick college town they got it going on. The exception to the rule.
 

[Shuffler]

Lubbock, otoh, has the best mass transit I've experienced, so far. Every 15 minutes there's a bus from my apartment to the campus (and buses all over the campus to connect various buildings). And everything connects from the Social Security office to the mall to the grocery store to the liquor stores, etc. For a hick college town they got it going on. The exception to the rule.
 

   Busing is not really a bad thing.... not at all. It is when they start talking rail that things get totally messed up.

[Arlo]

   Busing is not really a bad thing.... not at all. It is when they start talking rail that things get totally messed up.

If Amtrak made pick-ups and drop-offs in Lubbock I could dig it.

[guncrasher]

I saw something like that happen back in the 80's in los angeles.  I had a car but i took the bus because it would save 20 minutes over driving, there was a special lane for buses back then on the freeway and I didnt have to worry about finding parking.  needless to say my work was 11 miles from the bus depot and the bus depot was 1/2 a block from my house.

now this one morning it was cold for los angeles, around 60, the windows dont open on the bus but there's emergency hatches on top that will open a bit to let fresh air in.  the hatch was open and somebody closed it, the driver, and I am not kidding stopped the bus on the emergency lane and opened it, somebody closed it again and told him it was cold.  he stopped the bus again and open the hatch, as soon as he sat down somebody opened it again, he stopped again and went to open the hatch, 4 or 5 guys stood up and blocked the driver from opening the hatch again, told him it was cold on the bus.  they were not rude or anything, they just said we are cold.

when we got off the freeway there was 4 police cars waiting for the bus.  they boarded the bus with guns on their hands but not pointing at anybody,  and he told them some passengers had intimidated him and he felt unsafe.  all of us started talking and told them what really happened, the officers talked to the driver and asked him if it was true, he said well kind of it's stuffy in here and I want some fresh air.  the pointed to the small driver's window that he could open and not joking he said but then i get cold.

they told him, you are lucky we dont arrest you and make sure you lose your job for this.  that was so stupid.


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