What are your pet peeves about public transport?

Question

Public transport is a necessity for many, what are your pet peeves about it? How might it be improved?

Vent away!

Answer 1

I once saw someone eating a bowl of cereal with a glass bowl and a metal spoon on the train. wtf? Did they pour the milk in at home or on the train?

I hate people who yell, from the top of the stairs: "Hold that train!!" when they see the train on the platform. a) as if anyone will b) as if there are no other trains c) as if the entire train should be made to wait for them to drag their slow a.r.s.e. down the stairs.

Also: people who transport their bikes on the train DURING RUSH HOUR deserve a special place in hell.

Phones and music played too loudly are also an annoyance.

Answer 2

Inconveinient, inefficient and ludicrously expensive.

As a business its doomed in its present form and cannot compete with a car for the reasons above.

Whats irritating to me is that we here have a chance to reduce carbon emissions by making public transport available, safe, clean, reliable and cost effective. That doesnt pay the shareholders though does it?

How about giving electronic credits to Car Owners every time they use Public transport? These credits could offset road tax, it would be a consideration for me I think.

Perhaps we could look at other models of public transport, see how they are funded and run. I understand Scandanavian countries do a much better job although thats hearsay.

I took a train to London it cost 28 quid return. Thats just me. If I was married with kids goodness knows what that would cost. It would be cheaper to drive, park on double yellows in the middle of piccadilly, get fined and drive home for such a family. Maybe a few should do that!

Im also told its cheaper to bunk a train and pay a fine than buy a ticket in some cases. Who runs these outfits?

ok Im rambling now...

Answer 3

My pet peeves with public transportation is of the over crowding at times and when the driver is just rude to people, and when people are rude to disabled people, and the people that think that everyone else is in their way. I mean, it's a public thing- you know one of your pet peeves are going to be tested when you go on any public transportation system.

Answer 4

I work on public transport as a ticket inspector and even I think its in huge decline.
The fares are way too expensive, the buses are often dirty or scattered with litter and they are usually cold in the winter and too warm in the summer.
Some of the drivers are so ignorant towards people and some cant even drive that well....!! (In their defence though, the majority of them DO try their hardest to stick to times etc, which was something I didn't believe myself until I started working on them!)
And it really should be illegal for some-one who's full of cold to board a bus because they make fantastic breeding grounds for germs!!

Answer 5

I took part in a Transport for London Survey recently so I was able to really express all my annoyances! I actually don't use it a lot because I hate the crowds. I used to have to travel to the city for work and it was a nightmare. Sometimes I'd have to get off before my stop because I felt so claustrophobic.

Answer 6

Infrequency; poor coverage in some areas; unreliability. I'd love to travel by public transport to work, but walking 30 minutes along a dark road to get to a bus stop, to get a bus which may or may not come, and will take another 30 minutes to get to town ... doesn't compare with a 15 minute car journey, does it?

Answer 7

The awful scheduling and the high fares. People who use it who are sick and make everyone else sick. Crowds,obnoxious kids, obnoxious drunks,obnoxious people, cell phones, puking drunks, dirty buses, get away for criminals, inconsiderates - some drivers, alot of riders, bicycle racks on the front of buses that take forever to load up, if one wants to ride a bike, stay off the bus. Women who bring their babies, and all of their belongings, especially those strollers that they won't fold up and it blocks the walkway, seating and exits. Cabbies that drive like they are in the Indy 500, and take corners on 2 wheels. Un-timeliness, miss the next connection. Smelly people that don't know, or don't care about offending others. Using the heat when it is warm out, and air conditioning when it is cold out. Drivers that don't want windows opened.Screaming kids.Crying kids. "Kicking the back of your seat" kids. The smelly fuel emissions and that there is always 1 last seat on the bus, not even standing room only, but that one last seat remains vacant. No One wants to sit in it. Considering all of this, there is no way to improve it.

Answer 8

There are too many to count: cost, cleanliness, reliability, yobishness, crowded, getting to and from stations/bus stops. All in all why would anyone want to use it if they didn't have to?

(I was on a London bus recently and it was - as usual - packed. There was a guy standing in front of me in an expensive looking suit and this other guy near me was drinking a milk shake. The bus went over a bump and loads of strawberry milkshake ended up on this expensive suit, but the owner didn't realise and got of the bus unaware - poor b*stard - how often does that happen in a car?)

Answer 9

Its basically not cost effective.I do a round trip of 38 miles per day that costs £25 per week for petrol but if i take the train i have to walk approx 1.5 miles per day on top of paying £8 RTN for sitting/standing in an overcrowded train, So i think i will stick to my door-door comfortable & warm car.And anyway i drive a truck for a living

Answer 10

What amazes me is that we are the richest country in the world and that our transportation sucks!
Travel abroad and you will see what I mean.
Let's get the rails rolling and have commuter trains from town to town.
But we cannot seem to run city busses with out crying about lack of funding..