things you hate with a passion

I'm against government waste and all, but to complain about public transport as an example of a bad government program really is fucking dumb Dakryn. It's not like we need more pollution, more traffic fatalities and more congested cities ffs.
 
Well I wasn't positioning against it from the idea of waste. It is beneficial in over-populated cities. However, since most traffic fatalities happen on highways and cars only contribute a fraction of carbon based pollution, those aren't exactly good arguments for public transit.

I was more specifically addressing the tirade against people who would rather drive cars than use public transit.
 
I can't believe anyone in England would whinge about the public transport system over there. Granted I haven't lived there for a while, but when I was there I did just fine for two years with no car. The tube, fast train and bus system over there was incredible.

Melbourne on the other hand has a fucking terrible PT system and it's getting worse every year due to population increase in the inner city and poorly managed privatisation. And the fucking trams may have been great in the early 1900's, but all they do now is cause more congestion.
 
Wow. You make the United States sound good considering how much more country there is to manage over here.

And that's bad.
 
Wow. You make the United States sound good considering how much more country there is to manage over here.

And that's bad.

Yeah it's barely usable. The State government have just sacked the main train operating company in Melbourne because they've been abysmal. Constant delays, maintenance fuckups, terrible management of said delays & fuckups, etc. Who knows what the new company will be like. And the government have also just attempted to bring in a new high-tech ticket machine system which not only doesn't work properly, but is only available on trains when it was supposed to be buses and trams as well, and the tickets can only be ordered online because they haven't organised getting them into shops yet. If I was trying to use PT to get to work I probably would have gone postal by now.
 
I live in a city where the only public transport is the bus, and it only runs from 6 am to midnight Monday through Saturday, and stops at 9 pm on Sunday. Not only that, if you want to go anywhere other than downtown or to the 3 major shopping malls, you're fucked. Granted, population-wise it's small, but the city limits stretch 30 miles east to west. I yearn for a light rail...
 
I fucking hate it when you eat all the awesome Jelly Belly's, and then only the shitty ones like popcorn are left. It's like half the bag that could potentially be good Jelly Belly's.
 
I can't believe anyone in England would whinge about the public transport system over there. Granted I haven't lived there for a while, but when I was there I did just fine for two years with no car. The tube, fast train and bus system over there was incredible.

Melbourne on the other hand has a fucking terrible PT system and it's getting worse every year due to population increase in the inner city and poorly managed privatisation. And the fucking trams may have been great in the early 1900's, but all they do now is cause more congestion.

The PT system in LONDON is fantastic. No complaints. However, London does not = England. Public transport elsewhere in the country is pretty fucking shit. I hate being home from Uni mainly because the buses/trains anywhere else are crap.
 
The PT system in LONDON is fantastic. No complaints. However, London does not = England. Public transport elsewhere in the country is pretty fucking shit. I hate being home from Uni mainly because the buses/trains anywhere else are crap.

Well I lived out in Middlesex mostly and it was fine. I also lived up in Merseyside for a while and had no issues.