The Angry Minute 3-2-01
This Tuesday, a series of public hearings begin to discuss a proposed increase in bus fares. The Metropolitan Council say they will not make a decision until hearing what us commoners have to say…gentlemen start your engines.
While in the past, I couldn't necessarily claim first hand experience, here's a topic I'm all too familiar with.
I'm not at all against a fare increase to offset economic build-up, as long as the fares are applied properly.
For instance, I'd gladly fork over an additional quarter if I was assured in the future that bus drivers would be required to merge after a stop, and that THEY are the ones required by law to YIELD to traffic, and not the other way around.
Just think of a car that pulls over every block-weaving in and out of traffic-now think of that car with an additional ¾ ton worth of armor.
How about another quarter increase for some polite manners -then I wouldn't be given the snied treatment after I ask the driver if his bus goes Nordeast.. "That's what the sign on the bus says, doesn't it?" Well, the sign has a number and a letter, if that's what you mean?? I guess maybe drivin' a bus isn't your calling if you can't handle such a ridiculous queary while steering a vehicle.
Read a newspaper and have a coffee on the way to work? What a joke! My knees have floating cartilage from the lack of leg room, and apparently the trick to driving a bus is to see how many college frats you can launch from the back of a moving vehicle.
Metro Transit says it needs the increase to properly grow the system, I say there might be some more pressing needs like why I no longer ride the bus regularly in its present form. Although it's no surprise I ride the bus every Friday just before Lunch with the Governor just to set the mood for an Angry Minute.
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