Trimess

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Passenger reaction when on a westside dinosaur




Small mirrors,poor defrosters,vacuum powered wipers,filthy floors and windows,deafening rattling at every bump/pothole, inadequate heat/ac systems, petri dishes called seats, easy to enter steps,the oversize steering wheel, the million plus total miles and the efficient lift mechanisms. Did I fail to mention anything else?

3 comments:

Erik H. said...

The worthless headsigns that can't be seen even up close (and in the case of the 1400s/1600s the number sign is no longer being lit so you can't even see it in the dark) - while C-Tran has installed new headsigns in their buses that you can see from a half-mile away.

That many headsigns, on a daily basis, are locked up and useless.

That in the wet weather we've been having, the floors on the buses - especially on the stairs - are extremely slippery and a fall hazard.

The "stop request" signs that don't work (pull the cord, you hear a ding and that's it.)

The roof vents/emergency exits that leak.

Windows that are heavily etched.

Seats that are worn out, the seat backs are cracked and broken (causing a laceration hazard if the bus had to come to a sudden stop and someone bumped up against the cracked, jagged plastic - this is most common in the seats directly behind the ADA seats in the 1400-1900 series buses).

Certain seats in the New Flyer D40LF buses that cannot accommodate someone taller than five foot ten inches because of the inadequate seat pitch (there are certain seat rows I cannot sit in facing forward).

PA systems that don't work.

Al M said...

Hahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

A said...

And, ya know? It'd be a hell of a lot funnier if it weren't true