RIDERS' COMPLAINS * Canada - What's with Bus 470 in rush hour?
"... I standing packed like sardines is absolutely miserable !!..."
(Photograph by: Max Harrold, The Gazette: A Gazette reader says the 470 express bus to and from the West Island rarely has seats available during rush hour and buses are so full they sometimes cannot take on passengers. The STM responds that it knows the route has grown in popularity and it plans to add 20 extra bus trips per day on the route starting in June)
Montreal,QBC,CAN -The Montreal Gazette, by MAX HARROLD -14 Feb 2011: -- Why is there such a shortage of express Bus 470s to and from the West Island during rush hour? I never get a seat on the bus coming into town, and standing packed like sardines is absolutely miserable. Coming home from the Cote Vertu metro station, there are not one, but two long lines snaking around the corner, sometimes anywhere from 100 to 150 people. We watch all kinds of empty buses going by, but no Bus 470. When it finally arrives, due to the sheer mob mentality of so many disgruntled public transport users, arguments often erupt as people butt in or when the second line tries to merge with the first... When we have tried to argue with the bus drivers or superintendents, we are given excuses or reprimanded for disparaging the "performance" of their duties. No straight and honest answer. So what's the deal? ...
* USA - Waiting for the Express Bus in City Heights
San Diego,CAL,USA -The Voice of San Diego, by Adrian Florido -February 13, 2011: -- John Bailous was standing at a bus stop on a wide El Cajon Boulevard overpass in City Heights on Friday morning, surrounded by amenities you wouldn't expect to see on a freeway bridge: A plaza scattered with benches, tree planters, kiosks and a bathroom, which was closed. Not only is the bathroom closed, residents like Bailous are still waiting for transit stops that have long been planned on that bridge... Caltrans widened it nearly a decade ago after City Heights residents demanded concessions from the agency for building Interstate 15 through the area in the 1990s, razing homes and businesses and splitting the community in half... The plan was to build bus rapid transit stations with elevators on two special overpasses — at El Cajon Boulevard and nearby University Avenue. Bus rapid transit lines often have dedicated lanes and fewer stops, allowing riders to get where they're going faster... Since the special overpasses were built, though, they've sat unused, the paint fading on the little kiosks and the bathroom's outside walls collecting graffiti without ever being opened to the public... One of the two proposals to build a station on the bridge and a platform down below would include stairways to let passengers emerge onto either side of the bridge, depending on the bus they needed to catch...
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