Friday fun poll: super great days on transit
March 11, 2011
Friday fun poll: super great days on transit
March 11, 2011
Sometimes, you hop out the door to start your transit trip and everything seems to just line up. You grab your bus, get a seat, the bus driver is super friendly — and then you make your connection without a hitch and get to your destination early! Certainly, it’s not every day, but from experience, I do know it happens from time to time. So how often does it happen to you?
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When do you find you have a great transit day?
Total Voters: 131 |
Feel free to declare your best ever transit day in the comments, too :)
I don’t usually get happy transit days on the weekends, but this one time I didn’t have to wait a minute. The first bus arrived on time, I had 1 minute left before the Canada Line left, the second bus came just as I emerged from the underground station and my final transfer was swift. I was meeting up with friends and I was surprised by how quick that was!
There should have been an option between every day and once a week. I’d say I get maybe two or three trips a week where everything works out perfectly.
2.37 times per week on average, but I just put once per week in this poll.
I am happy by thinking happy thoughts. When Im on the skytrain, I pretend I’m falling, cause it looks as if we’re going to fall. When I’m on the bus, I just be exited. I don’t know what it is, but the bus just makes me happy.
I go places on transit about twice a week in most cases, and I can’t really say I have perfect transit days every other time, so I picked “once a month” even though I think it’s a little more frequent than that.
I just had a good day on transit, talking to two bus drivers about EVs, Ship/Freight vs Electric Scooter engine efficiencies, oil prices at Libya, huge responsibility of bus drivers… Yeah good day “on transit”, waiting for the #10
One good trip that always puts a smile to my face is taking a 351 on the highway portion between Bridgeport Station and South Surrey Park and Ride during a sunset. Around 5pm sitting on the left (driver’s) side on a Bridgeport Station trip, you get a beautiful sunset view on the freeway, along with a nice cushy suburban bus ride!
It happens to me often. Just on a recent trip on the 301 Newton Exchange, I dropped my monthly fare card on the bus and didn’t realize I had dropped it.
Since the 301 that I dropped my fare card on was the first 301 that left Brighouse Stn for the day and it was also the station that I boarded the bus at, there were not a lot of people that boarded that bus.
When the driver was doing the walk through, they found the fare card. Since I got off at Newton Exchange, the last stop for the 301, the driver had a felling the pass was mine.
When the bus finished its layover at Newton Exchange and was starting its second trip back to Brighouse Station, I was still wait for my transfer bus at Newton Exchange. Since I was waiting for the 341 Langley Center, the 301 Brighouse Station and 341 Langley Center use the same stop the driver of the 301 told me that I had dropped my fare card on the bus and gave it back to me.
I didn’t even realize that I had dropped it. What a great driver!!
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I have lots of super days on transit on my days off from work; I don’t take transit when I’m working.