Lokal Boyz

It’s been already 5 days raining now and as forecasted today that it will last up to this coming weekend. I know it was a bad news since the weather is already showing the sign of summer season, people like me who miss so much the hot , humid weather will make rain really sucks. Cold wind and rain is really a god combination of cough and flu.
If I really make this blog running I can say that this blog will be filled up of post about the transportation system here in Vancouver, how sucks it was. Since I’m a daily user of Bus, there is no reason I cannot experience the good and bad in the system. Of course I’m not bias on my opinion about it but what can you do about it I’m always in the front line. Now it was raining again, you are lining up in the Bus stop without roof waiting for the late bus to arrive soon and in the next stop the Bus was already been their parked for 15minutes (which I don’t know what he is doing) and yet he still not stop at the bus stop and let us in (it’s raining man!) although he was already late and he know it. I know he need to rest but can he just let us in first and then leave the bus and take a break. So who’s to blame? Absolutely the Bus Company, they don’t add drivers and additional trip on the route since they know there is a lot of Passenger on that route mostly students in the rush hour and yet seems like they don’t know about it. Imagine a 30 minutes bus interval schedule and you miss the first bus, its raining, snow, so cold, so what’s to you?
Really this post is as gloomy as I can see it, the rain is pouring so hard. I’m wet and cold waiting for the bus to ride me home and see my loving son, play with him and enjoy the remaining daylight and when the dark cloud cover the atmosphere and the only thing you see is the star that sign above us trying to gain sight out of the dark cloud just to give hope for people like me that there is always light at the end of the darkness time.

Today is Friday and the funny way to start my day with the failure of my bus to show up in the bus stop where he is supposes to show up. I usually take the bus at 8:00am but today he doesn’t show up so I need to wait for another 15minutes to take the next bus.

This is the big difference in the Philippines where you can get and ride a public transit anytime you want even in the early morning like 2:00am. But here in Vancouver you really need to set a trip schedule so you won’t be left in the cold waiting for the next bus to come, but even if you setting up better schedule the possibilities of waiting in the cold for half hour. Yap, I usually experience that. To get in the work I need to take three bus ride, first bus I don’t need to wait a long time but once I miss that, possibly I’m going to miss my second bus which is I need to wait for half hour and another half hour for the third bus. Total travel time from 7:00am to 9:30am equals to 2Hr and 30minutes for 28km, regularly travel time as per Google Maps is 34minutes. Fare price is $3.50 the most expensive bus fare in Canada.

Wonder why I say funny day? Well I got out of the office like 10minutes early just to get an earliest bus than usual but what happen is so funny it’s like a DeJavu the bus didn’t show up again. Damn! I should be home now. Where are actually the best services they are saying for the Fare increase, maybe on the next Fare hike? Maybe….