New Montreal Bus Tickets: Follow-up | Template | &c.
--Thanks to Fagstein and Deux Maudits Anglais @ Macleans for picking up this story!
--The original post.
--To the people who didn't find me funny, here's the template [above], and a link to the font, Coolvetica by Ray Larabie (make sure to send him some $--he does good work).
--This series was because I am vexed and irked at the STM, and I discovered that outrage makes really bad comedy. And so I resorted to some of the 'things that piss everyone off about public transit' themes. It's funny because it's true.
--I'm sure you have your own reasons for being irked, but here are some of mine:
--The original post.
--To the people who didn't find me funny, here's the template [above], and a link to the font, Coolvetica by Ray Larabie (make sure to send him some $--he does good work).
--This series was because I am vexed and irked at the STM, and I discovered that outrage makes really bad comedy. And so I resorted to some of the 'things that piss everyone off about public transit' themes. It's funny because it's true.
--I'm sure you have your own reasons for being irked, but here are some of mine:
- Three buses pass in a row, packed, another one doesn't show for 20 minutes, if at all;
- Running for the bus at the Cote Vertu platform, the rent-a-cops directing your way, as it pulls away, having obviously seen you;
- You can only buy Laval tickets in Laval WTF, and Laval is not eligible for any sort of discounted STM ticket. As if anyone would go there voluntarily;
- Why is Laval not reduced fare eligible? Because they had massive cost over-runs building their Metro extension, and the people who will absorb the costs are Joe Lunchbox and Betty Paycheque (that's the users, folks);
- Their stupid computerized piece of sh*t systems don't work: the Puce cards have to be held still for 3-5 seconds over the sensor; the tickets take 5-7 seconds to be dispensed from the front of the bus; the magnetized paper cards don't hold six fares; they have to hire monkeys to train users to use their asinine ways; etc. Way to piss people off, STM! Wasn't any of this tested?
- They are always over-budget, under-serviced, and every year, with billions of dollars pumped into them, they still go back to the government and make the 'me need money' face;
- The Gazette started a series on users' STM woes called Squeaky Wheels, moderated each week by STM PR flack Marianne Rouette. And so that is why the STM charges more this year: they had to hire PR to channel users' antipathy;
- To add insult to injury, there are millions of the useless 'newspapers' 24 Heures and Metro--the free tabloids they beat you with as you enter a station--decimating forests, not being recycled, and clogging landfills. And who makes money from this? The STM, for letting the rags be distributed on their property.
OK, so I can't write comedy, but I can direct all your STM complaints to the proper place:
COMPLAINTS: 514 786 4636 + 4 + 3
OR EMAIL: commentaires@stm.info
