Do the buses need to do more?

I agree that the bus service on Monday should be better but anyone who has any idea who bureaucracies work (which should be most people in Canberra) is a fool to expect ACTION to spend their own money on more services on Monday. I’m sure if the people in charge of the Centenary pot of money had been willing to pay ACTION to run more services then they would have.

Suspect that this @BlueRapid300 person must be an Action employee, but without authorization to speak on behalf of Action officially, at least in this manner. I wonder what Action plan to do about this? Can’t obviously trace it if they haven’t given their name, but I would not like to know that any employee of mine was trading on an aspect of my customer focused business to have a go at said customers, who might choose to take their business else where.

I’m sick of Action. My bus is always late, or cancelled on some occasions due to lack of staff, has a driver who thinks its his own personal vehicle where he can play his s*** radio as high as the volume will go, and drives like an idiot. It’s all very well to have an exterior that looks customer focused, but you actually have to be able to fulfill it.

I’m willing to be a believer, but in the last few months, the service has been worse than ever, but with tweets.

The response (supposedly) from Action doesn’t surprise me. I had a similar response from TfL (who are the mob that run London’s public transport) when I asked them why in a public transport dependant city like London that they didn’t run buses on Christmas Day (something Action manages to do might I add), and the response was pretty much the same, the drivers are entitled to spend Christmas with their families too.

This puzzled me a little because as someone pointed out there are heaps of essential services that have to run on Christmas day, so what makes bus drivers different to these other essential services?

In the case of London and Christmas I found this excuse ironic as a good 75% of the drivers appeared to come from ethnic backgrounds that I would have a guess didn’t even celebrate Christmas, so not sure what they were going to do all day. As for their method of getting around on Christmas day the suggestion was to get a bus the night before and a bus home on boxing day.

To be fair on the drivers, do you think the ACT government should have budgeted a little more to pay a few dozen bus drivers a little bonus to work Sunday night of the city’s 100th birthday??

Or perhaps the government knows that 33.3% of the Canberra population are so proud of their city’s birthday that they’ve taken off down the coast.

But to the whinging bus driver, don’t you idiots who work in services, whether it’s bus driving, selling shoes or shovelling sh*t out of my sewer, realise when @TonyAbbottMHR gets rid of all those whinging public servants then there’ll be no one to catch your bus, buy your shoes or need you to shovel their sh*t, which means you too will be out of a job.

poetix said :

Picture a new version of Duel with the Blue Rapid chasing a cyclist down Northbourne…

With the bus stopping as required to set down and pick up passengers, then furiously chasing the no bell cyclist through red light cameras…

Picture a new version of Duel with the Blue Rapid chasing a cyclist down Northbourne…

Oh wonderful, the folks at action are handling this with great professionalism and aplomb. I wonder if the blue rapid series would have a less sporadic timetable if it weren’t busy flaming journo’s on twitter.

johnboy said :

What an exciting era when I can get hate tweets from a bus route!

Hahahaha! AWESOME! “Our bus system would work fine if it wasn’t for these pesky Canberra passengers”! Classic, @bluerapid300!

johnboy said :

Endrey said :

If the original writer of that post gets in touch with fun machine through the band’s facebook page we’ll arrange transport for them.

A Fun Machine based transport solution. Nice one.

I wonder if it’s anything like Scooby’s Mystery machine?!
http://worldcartoontoons.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/scooby-doo-mystery-machine.html#!/2012/06/scooby-doo-mystery-machine.html

That would be a fun machine! Hahaha! 🙂

It’s nothing new for us, we’re increasingly filling the vaccuum of state services. Homeless shelter, food for children, etc. In 2011 we invaded Yemen.