F**KING BUSES!!!!

UrbanRacer · World Chat Champion Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Karma :

i hate them, i f**king hate them. the past few days i've been using the bus to get around as the weather up here has been pretty sh!t and today i got the bus to work because the forecast was for heavy rain. It usually takes about 45mins to get to work on the bus and 10mins on the bike but today it took nearly an hour and i was already late for work, we got to the city centre and some twat property developer has got 3 streets closed off so all the traffic is going up one street and it takes fooking ages to get through the traffic lights, you get about 1 car through the lights at a time. This is when i lost it and got down to the drivers window and asked to be let off here, he said no much to the annoyance of me and the others wanting off so i pushed the emergency open door button but it didn't work Confused

(health and safety anyone?) so i tried to force the fucker and it didn't open either then the we started having a go at each other, finally got off at the stop but 20mins later for work Evil or Very Mad

and to top it off now their is clear blue skies as far as the eye can see Laughing

so i'm taking the bike to work now and i don't give a f**k how the weather is.

I know i shouldn't have had a go at the driver as the traffic has nowt to do with him but he could have taken an alternative street and got to the same bus stop quicker and he could have let us off as we were sitting stationary with the kerb at the door

anyone else lost their cool on public transport? or had similar experiances

LUXY DJ · World Chat Champion Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Karma :

stop being a fair weather rider then!

ride no matter what(well cept SNOW,ICE then thats acceptable)
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zaknafien · Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Karma :

Nah not lost my cool but that's generally because I avoid it like the plague, alternative form of transport bollocks.

I'm afraid the government will be kissing my arse for a LONG time when it comes to getting me to use public transport.
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anyone else lost their cool on public transport? or had similar experiances

Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

Would not take the bus for anything, i its raining so what i take the bike, anything to avoid the stupid bus! nothing worse than sitting in a stupid bus with people in traffic, it freaks me out completly. I dont trust others driving anyway so i get my own transport. Rain or not. Get some waterproofs.
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feef · Energiser Bunny Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Karma :

the problem with public transport is that it's, well... Public.

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feef · Energiser Bunny Joined: 11 Feb 2002 Karma :

come the snow, if it's that bad.. I'll be taking the off-road bike in Very Happy

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jonnay · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Karma :

Rode the NSR through the snow to college last year to avoid the bus Thumbs Up

£80 a term, don't think so!
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Dragonfly · Super Spammer Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Karma :

well bad weather makes it more interesting thats for sure! Thumbs Up

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zaknafien · Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Karma :

I may consider using public transport when the following is implemented.

1, It comes when I want it to
2, It picks me up from my front door
3, It drops me off where I want
4, I get my own private cubicle and don't come into contact with anyone else.
5, It operates 24/7

Then it's still only a maybe.
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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

years and years ago this Indian Bus driver in Bury crammed 100s of people onto this bus , it was already full to the rafters full seats upstairs and down , stood full , but the driver kept packing in more people using a 2nd ticket machine to pocket the money,

a few others:

this bus driver who'd stop pop into a pub for a couple of pints and get back on the bus,

another guy who refused to give you a ticket and would pocket the fair

being mugged on a bus by a bloke with a knife,

lots more , if I was ever banned I'd use a push bike I'd probably get there faster to boot (ham hock man who rides a push bike is nearly as fast as me sometimes).
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pwntifex · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Karma :

I get the bus every day.
It takes an hour and then some to get from my town to my college, and there are only two (8.45, which arrives at 9 usually, and 4:30 - which usually arrives around 5 if at all) that go straight to/from the college; otherwise I have to walk for half an hour to the nearest bus stop.

I always end up behind some chav who has his music on so loud that you can hear the stupid cymbal/cheap synth mix from upstairs.

There are always at least three girls who insist on giggling loudly and/or squealing to one another at the top of their shrill voices.

Grimsby is horrendous.

I don't bike because I don't particularly enjoy doing 32 miles on de-restricted A road, most of which is either really twisty (read: splattered with mud and farm crap) or long and open (read: full of tailgaters, chavs in novas and gravel all over the road). Oh, and I get free bus travel.

Speaking of which, the roundabout into my town has huge pieces of gravel all over it; I can't believe nobody's come off on it yet.
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Rob-B · Trackday Trickster Joined: 21 May 2006 Karma :

I also hate buses, especially school ones. I recently had to get the school bus for a day and it felt sooo good once I got back on the bike Thumbs Up

The View Askew · World Chat Champion Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Karma :

Public transport my fucking foot, let me get on the bus and have all my mates in there with the seats taken out fulla sofas an herbal trees, a tv, a ps2, a copy of vice city and a decent hi fi with all our favourite tracks in hi qual audio. A cruise to surrender to.

Oh, and a few beers.

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beast rider · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Karma :

Well as i drive a bus for a living i feel i should answer this one, i don't care what any of you say so bring it on!!!!!

Did you even think that he wouldn't open the door because hes not aloud too?

Do you think we do it for fun?

We are not aloud to open the doors anywhere other then bus stops for your safety, when you board a bus we are responsible for your safety,plus if we open the doors and you fall over as you get off, you can then get comp from the bus company and the driver could lose his job!!

As for taking a different route then the one posted again if anything happens we are responsible and again could lose our jobs.

Lets put it this way, if a train sits just outside the station for some reason do you pull the lever and ask the driver to let you off as its closer to where you wanna go?

Think about what we have to go through day in and day out with pricks like you all day, moaning because we inadvertantly have to sit in traffic, moaning because you have had to wait a few extra minutes for a bus.

IF YOUR GONNA BE LATE WHY DIDN'T YOU GET UP EARLIER?

And for those people that get on and say 'why have i been waiting here for 30mins?' my answer normaly is 'because your a morron!'
Hopefully i have just got through to some of you, if not who cares?

Shaun · Likes 'em bent Joined: 17 May 2003 Karma :

Haha you have a shit job! Laughing

DucatiEVO · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 02 Sep 2005 Karma :

Last time I took a bus it was like 10p Embarassed

Beast Rider - Do you still have that three car rule thing (friend used to be a bus driver, and I used to laugh at the amount of times he used that rule to cream someones car)? Thumbs Up

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Itchy · Super Spammer Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Karma :

haha 10p , today getting on a bus you'd be lucky to get change for £5 , its £2.20 for a 3 mile trip to town.

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mazz · World Chat Champion Joined: 16 May 2006 Karma :

I hate public transport but unfortunately my bike is off the road waiting on an MOT Crying or Very sad

so I have no choice, it's horrible I finish work at 10pm and don't get home until 11.30pm, my house is only 20 minutes away with any other form of transport Rolling Eyes

I have this massive pet hate on busses/trains and that is people sitting next to me, I am sooo anti-social it makes me cringe and I really do just want to hit the person that has sat next to me I'm not a violent person so I don't understand why