Why is public transport so expensive and confusing?

in burgerland? because no one uses it except niggers and immigrants.

>>36683272
no canada. i need to get to uni in the big city from a suberb. I'll have to take 2 different buses and the subway. I barely even leave my house

>>36683238
Idk that's why I avoid it. There are all these unspoken rules they expect you to know even if it's your first time. If there was like a tutorial I could pick up at a town hall or something that would be great. But there's now how to guides for using public transport specific to the city you live in.

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>>36683238
All I know is if I'm using public transport, I have a wicked drug problem mixed with crippling depression that is completely out of my hands.

But there is an upside, now that I know, I might be able to make use of it. Because...

Knowledge is power!!!

>>36683238

High Demand, lack of alternatives

Most public transportation is either a monopoly or only in competition with 1-2 other sources of public transit in the immediate area.

>>36683238
It's relatively cheap here in Florida. $4.50 for an all day pass. 2 bucks for a transfer.

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>>36683328
This shit is so fucked up. I have to take a local city bus and get off in the middle of nowhere to take more expansive bus (dont even know which one, maps keeps giving me a new bus each time) and take the subway in a downtown big city. I would also need a bus pass but apparently they're only available between certain stations. what the fuck

>>36683388
Where I live it is $3.50 per ride on the bus

>>36683388
What the fuck
It's $5/ride where I grew up

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>get on the train or bus
>it's completely packed

this is the stuff of nightmares

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>>36683388
>mfw I used to use the access lynx bus system in Florida

getting picked up directly from my house is bretty cool. the fact that the buses rarely have any other passenger is even better

>>36683238
Excuse me have you ever paid for car insurance?

>too dumb to use public transport
>too dumb to drive
>too scared of minorities to use Uber

>>36683437
>>36683424
Well damn, it's $1.75 where I live. That adds up fast with 2 rides a day. I couldn't imagine paying more.

transit benefits bois

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>tfw have a disabled bus pass so I can ride the bus an unlimited number of times for free
>tfw only use it rarely when I have to because I have crippling autism/anxiety

Takes long as fuck to get anywhere too. A bus ride is usually going to take at least twice as long as a car ride due to stops and the routes they take, plus you have to walk the rest of the way to and from the bus stop

>>36683305
what uni, friend?

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>>36684566
Netflix downloads, my man.

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>first time taking local bus
>read rules
>bullshit about flagging it down etc.
>walk several miles to major road
>flag it down
>totally ignored
>start walking home in embarrassment
>bus stop was actually several hundred feet away
>bus passes me again on the way home
>see look of scorn and contempt on driver
>contemplate throwing self off bridge on the way home
not gonna make it in this world

>>36683238
It's nightmare-inducing for the first week, and then you can do it in your sleep. You should buy a bus/transit card. You just put money in there online and then when you get on the bus or whatever you slap the card at the kiosk and move on. No awkward fumbling with change only to realize it's "peak hours" and you have to pay exactly 32 cents extra or whatever.

t., poor NEET who had/has to take the bus everywhere.

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>>36684584
I don't want to say which school, I hope you understand. I can tell you its in toronto though. Doesn't seem worth the hour and a half transit ride due in part thanks to my autism.
>>36684788
Yeah I figured if I can memorize my route than I can create a checklist of what my routine will be like. Bus pass will be necassry but its like $100 a month. Thanks for the tip

>>36685009
If your from a suburb then you either go to Ryerson or UofT. Ryerson is like right in front of a station so not that difficult, and your probably a shut in smart kid so you go to UofT. How's the commute difficult? Is it switching subway lines? How is that difficult?

t.etobicoke

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>>36683388
>>36683424
>>36683437
the bus is 3.50 for an all day pass in Bakersfield. I only take the bus when I go to some beer festival I am gonna get smashed at. I think a monthly pass is $40

if you make the bus too cheap niggers and fapping hobos will ride it

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>>36683238
>first time taking a bus, it's the #3 that should take me straight to a station really close to where I live
>there's a station directly across from mine while I'm waiting with about 20 people, I'm all alone on the other side
>see a #3 coming the opposite way it should be to the station with loads of people, think I fucked up and make split decision to go with them since I didn't know buses could be assigned the same number for different routes
>about 10 minutes in it's blatantly obvious something is extremely wrong, went to the main interchange where most people got off and then kept going in completely wrong direction to where I need to be
>too beta to ask one of the passengers or the driver what's going on, as we drive further and further away I rationalise by thinking I can get to the end of the bus route and that's when the normal schedule begins
>on the bus for an hour and finally pull into the last station with nobody on, bus driver asks me what the fuck I'm doing
>tell him the #3 was supposed to end up in x
>asks me why I got on his bus since the right #3 came through the station on the opposite side of the road
>end up paying $60 for a taxi

never again

>>36685163
yep UofT. Thanks for the compliment too. Honestly I think I was just worried about not being able to acclimate to the hustle and bustle of the big city. I dug around and found a fairly simple route however I'm not very familiar with the subway. I'll figure it out though. Did you go to UofT? How was your experience if you don't mind my asking?

>>36685288
Are you that guy who posts in /mlb/?

>>36685009
if you have a smartphone you can download google maps offline and that lets you know which bus routes go wherte

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>>36685339
I am permabanned from /sp/ so I cant post again until I move or change ISPs or something.

I was the guy who posted dodgers butt

>>36685361
Kek. Sorry bro that sucks. RIP Blaze

>>36685361
why the fuck don't you have a dynamic ip in 2017? I've been permabanned countless times for all sorts of shit but I just clear browser history and turn my router off for 30 secs and it's all good

>>36685361
>48th ban

How?

>>36685361
/sp/s moderation is fucking terrible something needs to be done. i must have been banned there at least 10 times now. Had no idea you could get permabanned for getting banned one too many times

>>36685315
Im a YorkU dropout. No experience i can offer expect that if you want to go to school then work hard, if dont want to go to school then drop out early. No half measures. No fence sitting it like i did.

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>>36685393
I have a dynamic IP but I also have a 4chan pass and typing capchas are gay as fuck. I have 23 other boards I can post on.

I had no idea shutting off your router for 30 secs did anything. I think I tried for 30 minutes and my IP was the same. Do you clear brower stuff before you kill your router?
>>36685399
spee mods would ban you for shooting the shit in game threads after a game was over and they were mega fags >>36685429

>>36684729
I remeber having to put up with shit like this, the fat fuck bus driver told me off for not walking on to the road to flag the bus down, same as you always treated me with contempt. nice as pie to hot bitch that would sometimes catch the same bus.

>>36683238
It's literally only $60 a month where I live. Absolutely amazing.

>>36685315
another torontoanon here. just get off at like spadina or something, that way you can take the two all the way (assuming by suburb you mean either etobs or scarbs or somewhere in either of those areas)

>>36685514
why not just hail them at a stop

>>36685602
I was at the stop but that wasn't good enough for this guy, he wanted me on the road next to the stop waving him down. If the girl was there he would just stop automatically.

>>36685438
You're totally right. Im sorry education wasnt youre bread and butter but I hope youre happy with your current position. It would be cool to have some toronto robots to go to school with but its not the life for everyone
>>36685551
I'll either be getting off at spadina or dupont or something or other? Theres really no excuse for getting lost in the technological era I suppose

>>36685495
I have a 4chan pass too but I'm well aware whether a shitpost has the potential to get me banned or not, whenever I make a thread or post like that I just log out of the pass, make the post, and log back in again to resume normally. No matter how many posts you make with your 4chan pass on an IP your pass can only get banned if it was used to make the banned shitpost, so if you used it for 2000 posts and log out for the 1, you can just reset the IP and use it normally again. And it doesn't matter if you clear history before or after the reset.

>>36685735
and resetting the router is literally just unplugging the power cord for an hour right? I think I screwed up when I tried it

>>36685495
>I also have a 4chan pass
>>36685735
>I have a 4chan pass too
faggots

>>36685805
lmao beggar joe here

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this is why you use the robot method of transportation

>>36685882
bikes are for fit fags and I cant afford a 300 bike

>>36685361
Hey I let the homies in /mlb/ know you're alive kek

You should post some Dodgers butt so I can save it and get myself banned from that shithole

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>>36685976
andrew toles

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>>36685976
cody bellinger

>>36685814
I wouldn't use a 4chan pass if you paid for it anon.

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>>36685976
Josh Fields

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>>36685976
rare dodger ass i found a few weeks ago on insta

>>36685882
It would take over 2 hours of biking in snow to get to my destination

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>>36685009
>His school doesn't offer U-Passes
Should have gone to a better school, faggot.

>>36685783
no literally just turn it off for 30 seconds and then back on again, another IP will be assigned to you if it has a dynamic range, no unplugging involved

>>36685993
>>36685998
>>36686015
>>36686035
Thanks, I'll take one for the team and pass the new one on haha. Did you get banned every time you posted it?

>>36686103
I did not know there was an off switch i will have to look closer at my router

>>36686125
I think i would get banned if I just posted ass without talking about how the game went or something. in /qa/ they said off topic image dumping counted as spam

because the automotive industry sabotaged it and actively tries to keep it crippled for the most part, at least here in the US

>>36686237
the auto industy did not sabotage it as much as you thing

our states are the size of euro countries

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>>36686152
I wonder if they'll ban me lol

Anyways take it easy Bakersfield bro, you're alright. Let us know if you make it back to /sp/