Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car

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If you live in Ottawa, you heard last week that that driver of the LRT train that derailed last September, shutting the line down for weeks, had been distracted because he was talking to dispatch about an overpowering stench of human feces on the train — a stench that OC Transpo swore blind for months did not exist.

24 Replies to “Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 30 Random Hitchhikers Into Your Car”

  1. I’d say it’s Ottawa’s new “dump” truck that they ordered while calling them LRT Trains.

    Same Ottawa elites that called the truckers racists.

    They don’t know “poop”.

    1. “An overpowering stench of human feces on the train”

      I didn’t realize Gerry Butts was riding public transit.

  2. Mutt: Hey Jeff, these smart pills you sold me taste like sh*t.
    Jeff: See, you are smarter already.

  3. No surprise that ShitStain, Ontario has the aroma of human feces….totally fitting given the ShitStains that reside in said Toilet.

    Seeking an asteroid….

        1. Lived here even before the merger, when the city adopted that new graphic. Never even noticed. Now I’m wondering if that was a deliberate subliminal message, or just mere coincidence. After the past two-plus years, it’s not an unreasonable question to ask.

          1. The servants of evil can’t help themselves. They have to reveal their true nature in some fashion or other. That the bovine masses can’t see it isn’t evil’s fault.

      2. A RCMP friend up North said he had to go to Ottawa for work and called the place evil. And he wasn’t religious.

  5. To many transit riders with F Trudeau signs?

    Trudeau is late for his tree planting in Milton. Give him a break as he may need a recap on which end of the shovel he should use.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ryck_nancy/status/1545899568101040129

    If you live in or near Milton Ontario, our glorious leader is going to be there at 6:30pm. Please go and see that he is greeted like the true dictator he is. Psst, pass it on…Thank you.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/ohwaldie/status/1545785952118996998

    1. And since he can’t tell his you-know-what from a hole in the ground, who knows where the tree will end up?

  7. Never had these problems riding the trains and buses of Calgary and Edmonton. Don’t live in Ottawa.

    1. Don’t know where or when you’re riding the Alberta lrtrains.

      Have been riding the train in Calgary since the 90s. I’ve been hit in the bag by a thousand double strapped backs packs (wtf millenials), seen far too much sweet sweet hobo love, and once nazi hate poured out at me as I stood between them and a terrified African woman and her child ( seriously, honest to god wanna be faux Calgary Nazis). I’ve smelled every bodily fluid and variety of smoke, accidently crushed needles under my shoe, and have seen most other drugs done. I’ve been attacked twice, three times someone tried to pick my pocket, and I’ve had my paid fare checked 12 times in 25+ years.

      It’s the rolling crack den, an urban miasma that drags humanity through the city as drops the dregs of humanity like me at our daily grind (which is arguably worse than the commute).

      1. I’ve been rather luckier. Never been attacked and only ever seen a couple of attacks in 30 years. Only about a half dozen racist incidents in that time, and all natives harassing Asians. Have seen almost everything I wouldn’t want to step in, but managed never to step in it. A lot more bums than you’re used to in the suburbs, but I live downtown and just assume there’s going to be bums. Of course I’m always in bed by 10 which means I miss much of the adventure.

        In my experience it hasn’t been bad, and nowhere near as bad as what seems to be going on in Edmonton. But it definitely got worse in the last couple of years and yes, if they want to improve it, I’ll back them up.

  8. L – Are there no Occupational Health & Safety regulations, under which the employees has
    civil action remedies?

    Under current standard of care O.H.S. regulations, employees can refuse to do hazardous work.

    As your city, province and nation’s institutions slide into 3rd world, corrupt, failed state status.

    Remember, it’s only the self-governing who accept responsibility for both their own life, but also for the political state of affairs of their municipality, province and nation. Those who fail to do so, will find themselves in an upside down world, living in their own personal Hell without
    an exit, for ever…

  10. Well, for everyone who said “why can’t the Ottawa government get their sh*t together,” this seems like an answer to that oft-posed question.

  12. And yet they cannot voice the obvious-canaduh is a turd world shithole.

    The courts are corrupt, the health “system” broken and useless, the schools are worst than useless just communist indoctrination centres, our history is debased every day by the ignorant, our media companies fully-compliant with whatever inanities are espoused by the political class. We have no worthwhile political parties.

    In BC in particular we have a ruling NDP-NFG government who cannot manage rain events, sun-events, flu outbreaks, cannot manage a budget, cannot get a pipeline built, cannot get a an LNG port built, cannot run a ferry service, cannot make a profit on marijuana sales. In fact we are the cannot province in a cannot country.

  13. I’m trying to square this story with the one below citing … 92% of jobs created since February 2020 are in the public sector.

    When you hire a massive number of new employees … aren’t things supposed to improve? Aren’t ANY of those new hires tasked with cleaning feces off the public transit busses? San Francisco has a whole team of feces cleaners … who all make $6-figures … because equity or something?

  14. Now I’ll never stop seeing the 666, just like the arrow in the FedEx logo 🙁

    Live in Nepean (taken over by Ottawa in the Great Merger) and avoid downtown or any public transit like the cesspool it is.

    Question: Do other cities in Canada have panhandlers at every major intersection? Walking the stopped vehicles looking for handouts and holding begging signs? Turning into quite the industry! Some are dressed better than I am; high end running shoes, stressed jeans and high end shirts/blouses. Fancy body covering head-wear and flowing dresses are becoming prevalent too. Their cell phones are definitely newer than mine, much fancier.

  15. Going out to eat at a restaurant is like inviting 30 random strangers over for dinner.

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