Commuting 2

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Well, here I am again complaining about commuting - trust me there is going to be a long chain of blogs about commuting. I was actually going to create a blog dedicated to complaining about just commuting. So the second thing I hate about commuting is the mismanagement of the bus order. Okay so here is the background. In PA (Port Authority for those of you who did not read my last post) the way the terminals are set up is there are 3 gates at each terminal, this means that 3 buses leave from each terminal. The terminal is shaped like a long rectangle with 3 doors opening on the left side of the length of the rectangle - let's call these terminals A, B and C (.A being the terminal at the bottom of the rectangle and C being the one at the end heading into the Lincoln Tunnel)  Now the efficient way to make sure that everyone gets home on time without having to wait excessively in the sweltering heat because -  did I mention - there is NO air conditioning, is to have the buses lined up so that C is the first, B is the middle and A is the last. The buses should come in that order and when A is finally done loading and heading off, the next bus to pull up should be, once again, C. But NO, in PA it gos A, A, B, A, B, C, C, C, A etc. You catch my drift. So there we are waiting in the heat for bus C to pull up but there is a B blocking it and you want to pull your hair out!Because not only is your bus being blocked but 3 buses have already passed by and none of them were yours. Finally, the end is in sight but you have to stand there and wait because the guy at the back of the bus station who dispatches doesn't know his A, B, Cs.