We thought the roads would be pretty clear this morning, as the government implemented their one-day public transport initiative.
No fuckin way! If anything, the traffic was in fact a little heavier when we left for work at 05:45am. I'm not surprised. Even though it was advertised, there just isn't enough workable trains and buses to have made it work in the first place. What the government should have done, is prepare some six to ten months ago already. All the busses that were in disrepair should have been serviced, and thereby giving a boost to the schedules and the extra passengers that would be expected. Just two extra buses per route will already increase the frequency of the stops, and thereby satisfy the additional volume.
But no, the fuckers think everybody's just gonna drop everything and rush over to the bus/train station. Have you seen the state of the train stations? Christ man, it's just one level short of a dumping ground. When I was in Belgium, I almost got arrested for dropping a candy wrapper. It took me 20minutes to placate the Station Police and beg for forgiveness. For a candy wrapper, fucksakes!
The other day I caught a train to a buddy who stays 3 stations from me. There were bums lying all over the station, beggers bugging me for every fuckin minute of the 35minutes the train was overdue. And when the train pulled into the station, some fucker was standing right there in the open pissing on the tracks! Not withstanding the fact that there's an old man selling
Mary Jane under a big oak tree, right at the entrance. I wouldn't have minded so much had it been good shit, but alas, it wasn't. That's just the station. Nevermind that the trains themselves are below standard even for
Apocolypse survivors. The toilets stopped functioning after they were installed, and allowed to be sculptured into mounds of crap, by fuckers who have no remnants of human-design left in their minds or bodies. The seats are cut to shreds, and I can publish a 1000-Page book on the the graffiti alone. I've been in the army, and I've slummed it at times, but even I didn't touch the poles or hand-rails, for fear of getting The Plague.
Then their's the scammers and bullies, who harras the old and the weary, for money, cigarettes and food. The loud Bible-bashing train-evangelists who sing religious crap, and force pamphlets into your hand or pockets.
Do you, for one fuckin minute think that an average middle-class citizen is gonna queue to get some of that action? Not in a million years, mate. Those on the breadline are already using the services(what?), because they have no choice. They need to get to work. Unless the government changes the transport system with the same urgency it's changing the street names, things just ain't going to change for the better. Best they just shake their pockets and buy more oil.
For those stupid enough to have used the 'system' this morning, hurry the fuck up, you're late for work!
