buses in montreal

today, being a green citizen decided to take the BUS downtown.  Not to mention the now huge parking fees to dissuade people like myself.    There is a metro but I am not a mole, so decided to bus it.  Now, it's only 20 minutes or so on foot but my feet were already tired.  I did an hour + a half walk this morning with Handsome + time is money etc, so public transport so encouraged by all seemed the way to go. HA. Not.  Must have spent 1/2  hr on St. Denis waiting for the fabled bus.  Once I got on it, oh my, what an East Berlin special.  What a hunk of caa-caa.  Ugly, uncomfortable, holding so few people...   Transferred, at the new Library, which, for some reason has construction issues.   Waited, waited, waited, waited.  Looked at some schedule posted on a pole, totally confusing , so took moleroute.  Surfaced.  The whole thing took at least an hour, compared to by car, oh...say 5 minutes? Meanwhile, city officials, not content to screw up buses, metros, now moving on to TRAMS.  Could they not make one thing work in this city?  In any case, not having a love on with Montreal these days....if it's not the weather it's the politics.  The never ending separatist crap really gets to me sometimes.   The west beckons....

Comments

[edith]

I never even mentioned the getting home part. Waited for eons on St Catherine street! The heart of downtown, along with a bunch of other grumblers.
The finally, when I was almost home, the bus driver wouldn't stop. I kept on pushing the "arret" button + I was clearly on the first stair...+ he drove right by my stop. I had to go to the front door to get his attention. My friends, family, say, of course. Who takes the bus? Everyone knows they're useless, you have to take the metro. So why have buses at all if they're so useless?

[edith]

2 examples:
1) http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=653ddc18-cbb0-4618-bcf6-3332fe8e9674
2)plus the pq + adq's reaction to the Bouchard Taylor report...they see it as a justification for Bill 195, the "Quebec Identity Act."

[Bev]

WHAT separtist crap??? Haven't heard any lately. Maybe it dissipates in the air before it hits Westmount. Sorry you had such a bad experience re buses; it's probably because your end of town is being chewed up by construction. I can't imagine what tourists think about so many streets dug up and blocked. I can see why you can't wait to get to Calgary.