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chaos began today.
the passenger transport board, in it's unique wisdom, decided to conduct an overhaul of the public bus system for adelaide.
this involved chucking out a whole lot of bus routes.
my housemate is pwnd if we wants to get to work on school holidays.
the one and only 580 route bus that runs in the morning just happens to be the one he catches to get to work. none of the ones he used to catch home exist anymore. he can either leave work an hour earlier, or and hour later. or go via the city. and fight with city suits to get a bus home(ish).
we're both wading through the half dozen pdfs that have replaced the single route we usually needed (other than his 580 to and from work) to get to and from the city.
[i'm not going to try to figure out how i'm going to get beyond the city until i'm vaguely confident i can get to the city and back again in one piece.]
and to make things easier, the adelaidemetro website doesn't work properly in firefox or opera. so you have to use exploder ... aaargh!!
annoyed
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Maybe you could work this into your novel... in a secret plot, oil companies buy Adelaide's public transport system and proceed to deliberately fuck it up so everybody has to drive everywhere.
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i have other things to do with my novel, but there is room to comment on the demise, again, of 'public' transport. along with everything else 'public'.
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http://www.livejournal.com/community/adelaideians/321240.html?style=mine
It looks like some people live in a fantasy world where theory is practice, and consultant know what they're talking about.
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imagine trying to get them to see sense if they came in and asked you for advice - when they really expect you to (a) solve all their problems, (b) recognise their expertise, (c) be cheap/free, (d) make magic boo-boo bear happy.
i do have moments of extreme happiness that i don't have to deal with clients. just miss the ability to afford things.
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at least i'm only 20 mins walk from paradise, where there ought to be a 'bus every 15 mins' now.
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but still confusing.
being a loop, someone chose not to use the previously well established a/c designation to indicate which direction a particular bus is travelling round the route. instead, it is left to the prospective passenger to decode the timetable.
the key is to have two timetables (i realise this may be difficult, i had to search for four days to get one - from the train station of all places). with two timetables, you can look at the routemap and the timetable. the key is to look at the orange->green or green->orange transition on the map. keep going round the map until you get to you stop. now you can figure out which side fo the road the bus should be travelling on. if the driver isn't also confused, or has the correct route description.
then you simply have to figure out each of the other buses it connects with, and hope they actually connect.
and fend off the amazed bystanders.
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getting to the city is fine seeing i train it in. however its still 45min on public transport to get where it would take 15mins in a car. Atleast its still cheaper than in brisbane and we can use our tickets for more than just one bus transfer per ride.
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having more regular buses is cool. no doubt about that. especially on weekends.
the problem is mainly the changes to routes, and timetables. we're lucky, one bus will still get us to the o-bahn, or to the city via the o-bahn (depending on the time of day).
my housemate works on greenhill road. getting there and back is not so easy anymore.
* where 'trip planner' apparently means 'confusion device'. just links to the half dozen pdfs for each stage of a proposed trip. no planning done ...