I think my bus just left without me… There was a bus parked up after (not at!) the bus stop showing as “not in service”. My bus (no tracking) was supposedly 5 minutes away, so I figured it was just waiting until peak time to start running, and another was going to come get me. Then the departure time comes and it pulls away, and I looked over, and it was marked with my route number. But it was too late, it was already half way down the bloody road
☹️ It’s coooooooold and I was only anticipating a 5 minute wait so I’m a little under dressed. Also, this bus route runs semi frequently (15 mins in peak), but I was going to catch this bus to connect with another bus which only runs hourly, which I’ll miss now. Ugh
I like public transport and if it was run more frequently and was a bit more convenient, I would use it most of the time, but yeah, it really sucks how they can just not run a service, or a bus can leave 10 minutes early, or 20 minutes late, and it’s just like “ok… What do you want me to do about it?”
I normally don’t complain but I was quite annoyed by that so I ended up being a bit of a Karen and calling PTV and politely lodging a complaint. Before they answered, there a message about VLine played: “Due to an external communications fault, all VLine rail services are currently suspended and will be held at the platform. We are unable to provide an estimated departure time, or a timeline for when services will resume.”. Pretty much everyone outside of the metro network is just fucked tonight. From what the app says, it doesn’t even seem like they’re trying to organise coaches - it literally just says “passengers should defer travel”
Passengers should defer travel. In the middle of peak hour. While they’re possibly hundreds of KMs from home with no other way to get back. JFC
I think my bus just left without me… There was a bus parked up after (not at!) the bus stop showing as “not in service”. My bus (no tracking) was supposedly 5 minutes away, so I figured it was just waiting until peak time to start running, and another was going to come get me. Then the departure time comes and it pulls away, and I looked over, and it was marked with my route number. But it was too late, it was already half way down the bloody road
☹️ It’s coooooooold and I was only anticipating a 5 minute wait so I’m a little under dressed. Also, this bus route runs semi frequently (15 mins in peak), but I was going to catch this bus to connect with another bus which only runs hourly, which I’ll miss now. Ugh
And unfortunately this is why I have a driver’s licence and a car…hate how little mess ups like that can blow out your travel time by so much
I like public transport and if it was run more frequently and was a bit more convenient, I would use it most of the time, but yeah, it really sucks how they can just not run a service, or a bus can leave 10 minutes early, or 20 minutes late, and it’s just like “ok… What do you want me to do about it?”
I normally don’t complain but I was quite annoyed by that so I ended up being a bit of a Karen and calling PTV and politely lodging a complaint. Before they answered, there a message about VLine played: “Due to an external communications fault, all VLine rail services are currently suspended and will be held at the platform. We are unable to provide an estimated departure time, or a timeline for when services will resume.”. Pretty much everyone outside of the metro network is just fucked tonight. From what the app says, it doesn’t even seem like they’re trying to organise coaches - it literally just says “passengers should defer travel”
Passengers should defer travel. In the middle of peak hour. While they’re possibly hundreds of KMs from home with no other way to get back. JFC
Unfortunately it seems like it’s another victim of the outage. Bummer. Hope you got to where you needed to be without freezing too much…