Comments on: Bus riding made easy — or at least easier

By: Siel

Siel — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:15:52 +0000

Eh, maybe you’re right about overreacting. But I don’t think you read my response v. carefully — It wouldn’t have mattered if I had the sched in hand, b/c the last bus did not show.

And my point about how taking the bus shouldn’t mean that I can’t change plans spontaneously still stands.

By: stress of taking bus

stress of taking bus — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:28:55 +0000

It seems Siel took things WAY TOO FAR. Her comments seems WAY out of proportion to what this person kymberleigh is writing. I read kymberleigh comment and didn’t see it as insulting as Siel claims. Sure, kymberleigh sai “reality check”, but c’mon kymberleigh was not directing it at any person. I think kymberleigh is trying to point out a USEFUL tip: PLAN AHEAD. Just print out the timetable and be done with it.

Secondly, Siel seems a bit frustrated waiting an hour, so it understandable for her to be mad.

third, i think Kymb answer Siel questions well and without getting mad. If Siel had just print out the timetable, then she could go to a concert and at the end of the concert(at whatever times it ends or when SHE decides to go home), she just need to whip out the time table. NO NEED TO FIGHT OVER SOMETHING SIMPLE AS THAT. hehe.

By: Kymberleigh Richards

Kymberleigh Richards — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:51:42 +0000

*sigh*

The point of my original post was more in response to Ken’s posts, but somehow it turned into a debate where both sides agree but the details are different.

I’m sorry that you read me as being condescending. I wasn’t trying for that. You do know a lot more than most of the people I deal with. But I do hope that — even though advance planning won’t bring a dead bus back to life so it can follow its schedule — you agree that reading timetables in advance does help one be more prepared.

Let’s not argue anymore about this. I don’t think either of us is feeling good about it.

By: Siel

Siel — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:58:22 +0000

Dude — I write about a bus not showing you. You say I need a “reality check” and have “no excuse” because I didn’t carry a schedule — nevermind the fact that carrying a schedule won’t make the missing bus show up. Yes planning is good — if the bus comes as planned — which it didn’t. Your “advice” — and the condescending tone therein — is completely not fitting to the occasion.

It really takes a special person to say that a post in which I big up the Lil Blue Card and Metro tokens, AND advocate taking public transit at least one way, is an insinuation that “the entire system is flawed.” Gimme a break.

By: Kymberleigh Richards

Kymberleigh Richards — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:34:13 +0000

Siel, I don’t know why you are being so sarcastic all of a sudden.

No, I do not expect transit users to give up doing things on a whim, but it helps if you carry timetables for lines you know you will use. I keep the ones close to where I live with me always, plus I have a full set of all schedules in the San Fernando Valley that I can take with me and/or refer to at home.

I merely suggest that you do likewise. I would suggest that to anyone who is going to use public transit on a regular basis.

You ask me to “examine” the effect of my posts. I would like you to please do likewise and see why I am saying what I am. Riding “smartly” includes preparing in advance, and your original post shows a lack of preparation.

And it is neither my fault nor yours that a bus apparently broke down and didn’t come when scheduled. It happens (they are, after all, not perfect), and I have been inconvenienced too. Only I don’t post about it in a blog and insinuate that the entire system is flawed as a result.

Also: The crack about So.CA.TA was uncalled for. I was not speaking for them when I posted.