Public Transit and retards!

This morning for the first time in two years I started up my truck. It is a new truck, newly purchased, registered and insured. It is a big truck. It is a big ole diesel Dodge 3/4 ton Alberta screw you green freaks truck.

For two years I rode the bus here in Edmonton. The fare is high, the schedules bad, too many drunks, ersatz disabled and retards. There is NO reason any intelligent person in Edmonton would use public transit for any reason.

Last week it was -25C and at 6:15 PM on one of the city's busiest thoroughfares, I waited 23 minutes for a bus. During that time, three "sorry Out of Service buses trundled past and one "Out of Service" bus stopped and the driver raced out to the adjacent KFC for the Tooney Tuesday special.

No one in their right mind would use public transit if they had an option. I can not recount how many times I have relinquished my seat for a some old guy or gal with a "walker". Always this "walker" is piled high with shopping and the person pushing the damned thing is healthier than I.

Yes, there must be some disabled transit system....but these folks using the same system as the rest of public simply is not working. No one is going to leave their cars at home to take a bus, to stand so some poor guy with a motorized apparatus the size of a Toyota truck take the space of a dozen other folk. That is the simple truth.

You have welfare mamas with prams the size of Volkswagen mowing folks down, whilst their "little darlings" are screaming. If it isn't the "white trash" making your daily commute the "bus ride from Hell", it is the unwashed, stale beer infused Indian that just has to sit beside you.

Yes indeed, there is something egalitarian as hell about all this but NO ONE will pay to "save the planet" and leave their car at home, to enjoy this little slice of heaven. Nor should they!

Then you have your "droolers" and "gobbers". Some years ago there were some billboards. Prominently pictured was some mongoloid...with the caption, "my place is in the community with you." On the one bus route I used to take there was a couple of folks from a group home that regularly used this transit route. One would sit on the front seats and spit on the seat beside him...every day. There was the one, forty year old "young mother" with the toy doll in the pram she had on the bus ...every day. Whilst indeed their place is "in the community" it is not on public transit.

So now I am "drivin agin"! Why should I use public transit, or care about "saving the planet" if the powers that be can't run public transit in a business-like, efficient and manner that satisfies and serves the customer?