Does anyone like buses?

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I hate them. Whether riding them, driving alongside them or walking around them, they are just godawful pieces of technology.

Being a psychopath seems to be a mandatory trait for a bus driver, and even if there is a lane dedicated for buses they won't drive it out of spite. Ditto blocking off intersections by going through the last moment because for some reason they want to rush their job of driving in a circle every day for multiple hours.

And the worse thing is that there just seems to be more of them every day.

 

[Quindoll]

I like them. Yes the bus has disadvantages. The biggest advantage though is to not having to witness the autism that happens on the road. Instead I can read Kiwifarms.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Drivers always drive either too fast or too slow, and they're always dirty and stink because they let hobos in.

I hate being poor.

 

[Chilson]

The only busses I tolerate are airport, school or cross county busses. City busses can get fucked for all I care.

Buy an ancient used car for like 3-5K and drive like the rest of us. Even a crap loan with that low of a principal isn't too bad if you don't have the money on hand.

 

[Dialtone]

If there were no niggers, hobos, jeets, fats, or mexicans then the bus would be an acceptable way to get around town.

 

[Schwarzwald]

I hate being poor.

Have you tried simply not being poor?

 

[JohnnyG]

If there were no niggers, hobos, jeets, fats, or mexicans then the bus would be an acceptable way to get around town.

This is the "socialism can work in high-trust societies where no one would free ride, like 95% White Vermont & Scandinavia, or 99% Japanese Japan" of public transit.

But to answer the original question, people who don't have to ride buses (grad students & professors who live in college towns, rich NGO/transit activists, and richer globalists) all seem to love them.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

When I had to ride on the bus in the city, it sucked ass. With all that waiting, changing routes, constant stopping, and slow driving, the bus can take hours to get where a car can get in minutes. Still much walking. Then there's the crowding, the advertising all over the bus, and of course there's the people one may see while riding on a bus.

I used to have to ride the bus to go someplace that involved 2 bus routes.

It took about 90 minutes to get where a car could get in less than 30 min.

>bus travels long circuitous route

It's even worse if one has to switch routes. Routes can be poorly timed so that the first bus gets to the second stop as the second is leaving, meaning one may have to catch an earlier bus and wait quite awhile at a stop to switch buses. Really BS in crap weather.

And then there's the colorful people and happenings one may witness on public transportation.

One time I was taking the bus somewhere. A guy - with the body of a man, but who clearly had the mind of a prepubescent kid - boarded the bus. Seems he boarded in a way where someone else ended up pushing him. Suddenly I heard this loud nasally voice whining "WHY DID HE PUSH ME?!" Everyone looked over and the guy took a photo of the other guy who supposedly pushed him. An argument broke out, and the bus driver chimed in with something like "shut the fuck up or get off the bus" (yeah he actually said "fuck"). Then the autistic guy started stimming and rocking back and forth, still visibly shaken from the confrontation.

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

Nah, too slow. Waiting takes more time than taking them sometimes.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Have you tried simply not being poor?

Yes. It didn't work out...

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

I'd take a bus if it came around here, save me on gas money. No niggers or jews around here to cause trouble.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Oh yeah, and I hated riding on the school bus as a little kid.

Angry or even crazy drivers, insufferable fellow kids, stinky.

 

[Whatevermancer]

They're alright, but I prefer trains.

 

[winterfag]

I like bussy

 

[Doom House V]

I really like listening to rap music over the speaker of a government issued smartphone yeah.

 

[Brightstar777]

The bus feels nostalgic to me

 

[Venial Sneeds]

They have a lot of potential, but most companies don't maintain their units enough and the 15% chance of having a freak on doesn't help.
Semi-public/Private bus services, like for universities, factories and offices are alright.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Have you tried simply not being poor?

Like I said in the OP, you don't even need to ride a bus to suffer from them. Short of taking a helicopter everywhere you are going to suffer them.

 

[We Are The Witches]

As public transport around the city? They're of course good, for those who don't have nor want to use the car.

As always, the problem might be those who are inside the bus, and I'm not talking about the driver but impolite people.

 

[PaleTay]

I like them in metro areas and downtown when I don't feel like paying for parking or a taxi, they're even arguably a faster way home if there's a crowded parking lot or any wait for the taxi.