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Assholes. Not wishing to throw this thread off, but last year, as Christmas Day and Boxing Day were the w/e, there was a bank holiday mon & tues, so the binmen had a 3 day week. The council offered them £400 !!!!!! to work this 3 day week, and the bin men refused and said they wanted £750, thieving fucking wankers ! p.s. they didn't get it.
One day, I shall ditch my little Fiesta, get a Golf GTI or a BMW 3 series, a bluetooth earpiece, a yuppy suit and a sales rep job and speed down buslanes at 50 mph giving anybody who dares to flash me the two fingers...!
I pay road tax but get the bus to work. I'm not polluting the environment. So why shouldn't I get home quicker than those who DO pollute the environment in their singly-occupied gas guzzlers?
If you are that upset about it go by bus, or if four of your mates come to work in your car instead of their own congestion is cut by 80%.
Not from what I see. If cars could use both lanes every morning, then there is no way there would be the daily two mile tailback. On the second bit, yeah I spose most people who work and use busses do pay road tax - I meant old people more than anything else. And I refuse to use a bus for all the reasons you laid out in your original post!
The sit empty for half the time. And you get fined for going in that empty lane. If there were more busses to justify it, it might be understandable - like in Eastern Europe, where there is TONS of public transport everywhere.
Talking of which, I love going there, because the trams are ace. Britain should have a good tram network. I wish we still did.
I must admit, I do agree with that argument. I think that's why public transport struggles to be successful in this country - there just isn't enough of it, and as a result it's unreliable and many people don't trust it. In many places, you get 3 buses an hour, even in rush hour and there's hardly room to get on them. Apart from a few cities (Went Manchester once and their trams were excellent) there are no trams which are a great idea, and as for trains - forget it, most train services are laughable. God help us when we host something like the Olympic Games for example. Most foreigners will not believe what the're seeing...!
The bus drivers don't do their job, but hey, that's a different argument.
Bus lanes are good, multiple occupancy lanes are good, and congestion is caused by selfish pricks who drive huge cars and only have themselves in it. If you want to be a selfish prick who drives a huge car by yourself then fine, but I don't see why you should be accomodated ahead of those of us who care about the environment and use transport sensibly. As I said, if people took a friend to work congestion would be halved, and if every car was full congestion would be cut by 80%- singly-occupied cars (of which yours is one) create congestion, not bus lanes.
Bus drivers are filth and whilst the buses are better, they are still full of smelly drunks and charvers.
Mafalda: It's such a pity that so many poor people exist.
Suzanita: Yeah.
M: The government should give food and homes to every poor person.
S: Why do all that? Hiding them would be enough.
I quite agree...
Two long weekends ahoy!
Words really don't do justice to how much I despise the scaggy shits.
It was 20 minutes late today, the bastards :yeees: .
And I like how it's the day when I DON'T have to be at college at 9, like every other day, that the bus gets in at 20 to like it's supposed to, rather than 5 past, like it has been. Which meant me waiting around in the cold for the sodding Post Office to open :grump: .
WHY!!?!?!!?!?!
You could come round for a cuppa :thumb:
(James, bring me back a kitten )
I would, but I think I'm gonna risk the earlier train, no doubt I'll be branded a criminal for blatantly fare evasion but fuck it.
MY KITTENS :razz:
:razz:
OR WE'LL TAKE YOU TO COURT HAHAHAHA.