i mentioned this recently in another ilx thread that talked about megabus, but my groundbreaking venture capitalist gamechanging disruption plan for megabus is to spend $15 an hour more at each location and have a person who organizes the lines and proactively tells everyone where to stand for their upcoming bus journey. they appear to have already piloted this crazy idea but it crashed and the waiting line employees are in open rebellion against the company, the bus riding civilians, and the concepts of order and conduct in general
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
xpost Now that sounds like the Megabus I know and loathe!
― Grand Moff Tarkus (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
I think I took Boltbus for a Boston roundtrip last summer? I don't even know for sure. Their return route was real weird, we went into Queens before ending up in thecanyons of the West 30s (as described by KM above).
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
tho the worst bus experiences to this day was my high school bus driver growing up
― kinder, Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
have had more nightmarish uk megabus journeys than i can remember. the recent occasion that comes to mind was the glasgow-london route that started off okay as i spent the first couple of hours reading, then it got dark out, and the lights didn't work, and the socket next to my seat didn't work, so the remaining eight hours of the journey consisted in staring into darkness reflecting on the horrors of life.
probably beaten by the time the last bus of the night, in january, at an unsheltered stop, just didn't turn up tho.
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 5 January 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
I got one of the elusive $1 fares today!
too bad on the way back it was $33 :/. and today was the first day the date was released for sale too.
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 01:43 (seven years ago) link
I got the elusive $1 fare both days. $4 roundtrip with fees.
and then, forgot somehow that I was out of my anxiety meds and needed to pick them up for two consecutive days for my bus trip leaving at 7:30 am.
rather than deal with the rigmarole of getting CVS to move the prescription to a pharmacy in Atlanta and me figuring out how to get to it, while also being without pills for almost an entire day, paid to change trips so I wound up spending $35. meh.
but I am on the bus right now. not using the Wifi cos it sucks. tether baby!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 March 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link