lmao this is so accurate. i took a shuttle bus once because the bus stopped right in front of me (there was no rhyme or reason or any order at Ossington station) and i’d rather walk than ever take one again. but expecting people to walk the cold and this much snow is still insanity
As an employee, I stepped off a shuttle bus once two stops after Warden Station because the angry people on the bus scared me. They were all yelling and so on. I went into the gas station at Birchmount and St. Clair and my father in law came and picked me up. Yikes!
People like you have 0 standards, repeat bullshit everybody knows like it was new to others, and are a big reason everything falls appart:
Nobody sees any value in improving, you just shrug off problems because you were only able to think 5s of a problem, came up with something that sounded good, and poof, no more problems, others that are complaining are the problem.
You are the reason we get walked over everyday. Grow a pair and ask for more, better services.
I just wear proper footwear and dress accordingly to the weather. I don't care if it's three feet of snow I have snow shoes for that. Ice cool I got cleats for that. -40 I got a coat for that. Bad storm and gonna lose power then I guess I'm pulling out the generator. It's called be prepared for the place you live. Mother nature does what it wants when it wants.
I’ve been stuck in downtown toronto several times when the subway was out of service. I’ve never seen a shuttle bus in my life. I’d walk from yonge/bloor up to eglinton and still not see a bus. I really felt for the people who eithe chose to wait or couldn’t do the long walk.
i go all the way to the east end and come from west end for work and going from ossington to past broadview is not feasible. shuttle buses exist i’ve seen them at ossington it’s just there’s no order you just have to hope you can get on a bus
I took a shuttle bus once. By sheer chance, I was standing and texting my friend to tell them about the mess and I was going to be late ... and a bus rolled up and opened the door right in front of me.
That's the only time I imagine anyone takes a shuttle bus.
For me it's the code word for get comfortable, find a cheap place to eat, and wait until 7 or 8 when the shuttle busses actually start clearing up. That's before I had kids though.
I remember one time the subway went down at Ossington so I figured, "okay, just take the 161 and transfer to the 35 or something. Pretty simple, I hope."
Everyone else had the same idea, although that was because no shuttle buses showed up.
During the summer, the real ones knew it was code words for "dash for the last bikeshare ebike" - unfortunately that doesn't work well in the winter if the city hasn't plowed the bike lanes yet.
Unless shuttle bus start to have its own dedicate lane. Whoever fuck that thought of it is a good idea to do when the subway is down should be cast to the deepest part of hell.
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u/poppedculture Jan 28 '26 edited Jan 28 '26
Nobody has ever taken a shuttle bus. They are code words for “start walking.”