Here’s the thing: there’s not much I really mind the MTA forcing me to do, but if you’re going to force me to do something, just make sure I can actually do it. I’ve been one of the biggest champions of the Select Bus Service that runs up 1st Avenue and down 2nd Avenue since it was implemented. It shaves more than 30 minutes off my ride to work versus the local bus. Being able to enter through all three doors means so many fewer people cutting me in line. When it runs on schedule, I almost always get a seat. (And I haven’t even minded that it doesn’t run on schedule about half the time.) I have fought little old ladies to the death for insinuating that it’s anything but revolutionary.
I love that I pay my fare before boarding the bus via a machine that then dispenses me a receipt, but here’s my complaint: the machines don’t always work.
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I would never be able to figure all that stuff out.
Yeah, I’d be ‘that guy’.
Now… could you give me some tips on how to program the clock on ‘the VCRS’?!
:)
I’m sorry, but that is BULLSHIT. If the machine doesn’t work, then that’s the MTA’s problem, not yours.
Then again, my perspective is a little skewed, as I live in a place where they practically BEG people to use public transportation.