Buses
So I’m on the train recently, and excuse me for being a busybody, but the lady in front, who can’t be a day under 75, is a reading a breathless novel about Rebbekah melting into the muscular arms of Storm. And I think to myself, “gee, I love public transport sometimes”.
The other day, I get off the train at Sydney’s Macquarie Park station. Right outside the station, two motorists are having a fist shaking match in gridlocked traffic and I think to myself, “gee I love public transport sometimes”.
November 2009. I’m in Melbourne for the golf, and I take the train to Huntingdale Station, followed by a free connecting bus to Kingston Heath Golf Club. The bus breezes through a special lane, while Tiger Woods is stuck in traffic, and I think to myself, “gee I love public transport sometimes”.
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The world’s worst headline is widely agreed to be this rip-snorter from a brief which ran some years ago in The New York Times: None dead in small earthquake in Chile.
This column might be considered a belated shot at the title.
But setting aside from its decidedly unspectacular impact, it’s a story which says something about the way we live and interact in a big city like Sydney. It goes to the kind of entrenched bullying and brinksmanship which pits complete strangers against each other in all sorts of frazzled, sometimes deadly encounters as we try to get through our day.
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Gregory North says:
Dear editor I drove STA buses for 6 months in 2005 and that was enough for me!! The lack of understanding from passengers and other road users is woeful, Mate I’ve driven Tanks in the Army, Operated Airport Firetrucks and now I’m in the job driving police cars. But quite… Read more »
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Peter Thornton says:
Driving a bus can be very frustrating. My experience with this occupation has been with Sydney Buses, and in the UK with Stagecoach. The majority of drivers I have met are friendly, personable and obliging. I have had worse customer service in banks, cafes and on the telephone from people… Read more »
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