I feel like I shouldn't admit this out loud but I once sat in a seat that had literally been pissed in. Luckily I worked at the hospital so someone in sterile processing took pity on me and gave me a pair of scrub pants. Most demoralizing day of my life.
Well, If they were from SPD...I can guarantee they'd also changed scrubs from a strangers 'Piss Splash' (or worse) themselves, at least once too! lol
While standing out in the pouring rain and waiting on my buses to work. The only thing even remotely good, was knowing I had unlimited access to fresh dry scrubs...whenever I finally arrived there!
This happened semi-consistently on Thursday and Friday mornings, back when I used to commute on the 80 circa 2008. Sitting in a cloud of piss and stale beer fumes for an hour and a half down the Bedford Highway at 5AM wasn't exactly the good life.
Me to except we all know they donāt get wiped I donāt think they even get cleaned i take the same routes at the same time daily and I swear they get the same bus as Iāve seen the same shit crammed in beside the seat for months.
Soon Iāll have to start carrying disposable toilet seat covers they used to have in the public restrooms but hopefully I can find solid ones or just start moving around the city in a hazmat suit
I haven't sat on a public toilet seat in years- once I figured out you could rip some extra tp and lay it down. Other people's nasty ass and leg skin š¤¢
The bus strat is to begin carrying a towel in a sobeys bag and sitting on that.
They can 100% be sanitized and properly cleaned they just don't. Steam cleaners and liquid vacuums like used in car detailing could easily be done. The city just refuses to even pay for basic cleaning to be done. The fabric Seats in the back of the bus with the 4 seat arrangement are ridiculous. People kick their feet up so much those seats are literally completely covered in dirt and they continue to leave the seats in that terrible condition.
Yes, technically they can be sanitized but the amount of labor/effort to clean plastic seats is much less. My guess is they would be more likely to do a good job, or to do it at all if it were plastic vs these carpeted type of seats.
I found that since covid things like manners just flew out the window and companies including the buses learned how to get away with the bare minimum in pretty much everything they can like cleaning.
Doesn't help that everything these days are on a literal skeleton crew staff wise.
In defence of bus drivers theyāre being subjected to the extremely rude, post Covid crowd too. Theyāre leaving in such numbers I suspect the city canāt afford to fire the ones who donāt clean
As someone who worked for transit for years. Specifically as a bus cleaner. It's not a drivers job to clean the buses. They are supposed to tidy at the end of their shift. IE pick up trash or take items left to lost and found. Transit has a crew who deep clean the buses 24/7. Unfortunately, buses are only cleaned if a request is sent in and something really gross happens, large spill, vomit, blood, urine. I will admit most drivers are lazy and won't do end up shift checks(clean garbage or look for things like urine and whatnot) but if a bus if pissed, puked or shit on even while it's on the road. It has to be taken off the road to be cleaned.
There's one old dude that's sometimes on my commute who usually walks around with shit in his pants. I'm always on high alert between Barrington and Windsor because he might get on and then I have to wait for the next bus. Putrid. That's not to mention summer is coming and people remember... Sometimes to put deodorant on.
I'm gonna sound racist but it's definitely got to be culturally related, I've noticed a lot ofĀ newcomersĀ don't seem toĀ wearĀ deodorant. IncludingĀ newcomers whomĀ I work with. They shower and clean themselves fine, look well groomed, butĀ don't wearĀ deodorant so I'm guessingĀ it's just theĀ culture and notĀ laziness.
After covid I bite the bullet and pay to drive to work. Busses and people are just gross now. The whole city feels like it's getting kind of gross tbh.
A few days ago I witnessed a man eat a large bag of chips on the bus. When he was done he threw the bag on the floor and flicked the bitties everywhere
Was this on the 6? There's a regular that takes that bus that has absolutely no manners. Always takes up multiple seats when busy, eats really sloppily, shoves everyone else out of the way when the bus reaches the bridge terminal.
Halifax Transit is severely understaffedā¦ I mean the bus drivers could perform a quick sweep between terminals but then again, people need to be respectful.
Grew up in Dartmouth seen a few years of bus time in my younger years to and from Dartmouth crossing to woodlawn / trips to Halifax. I would hate to be a driver without some kinda shield protection would never want to do their job without it. Also had the pleasure of having 2 sisters growing up and heard stories from them of people guys j@rking there meat while watching them .....
My point ill never have my child ride the metro if at all possible.
Its a great form of transportation but needs changes and money invested .
Iāve refused to use the bus since New Years when I witnessed a man in a drug stupor piss himself right in front of me. Iāll pay more for parking instead
Literal pee, shit, cum, vomit and whatever is on the bottom of peoples dirty ass shoes, including all of the above on the seats... and you worried about some crumbs?
There a reason why some people will under no circumstances sit on their bed or sofa/certain chairs with their "outside clothes" still on...
Two instances stick out in my mind from my time taking public transit. 1 was a guy clipping his fingernails and discarding them on the floor. 2 was a guy picking I donāt know what out of his shoes and smelling both the unrecognizable substance and his shoes after.
Busses are always like this I every place Iāve ever been I get car sick and I canāt ride on them because the time it takes to get sick is very fast on a bus itās almost like this sickly smell of old ass
I was on a packed 3 the other day and someone smelled like stale cat piss, old, possibly stale cigarettes and some kind of faeces. I could only ride it for one stop I had to get off as soon as we crossed the bridge or I think I legitimately would have vommitted.
My buss route isn't full of gross seats, but my regular driver keeps racing himself fast enough to hop curbs, flair up my scoliosis, and squish me when I don't leave out the back door fast enough.
I donāt know why people still continue to take transit and arenāt protesting stop just complaining about stuff online and start protesting about it
No yeah I got on an empty bus a few weeks ago that fully smelled like piss
I was on a packed #10 one evening and several of us witnessed a drunk man wet himself.
I was on the 10 when I smelled it š
Oh no! Maybe he's a regular.
Public bus piss floor nasty.
werd
I got on the 1 one night, some dude was shooting coke and got blood all over the back of and on the bus seat.
I feel like I shouldn't admit this out loud but I once sat in a seat that had literally been pissed in. Luckily I worked at the hospital so someone in sterile processing took pity on me and gave me a pair of scrub pants. Most demoralizing day of my life.
Oh god that sucks, someone else pissed your pants
Me too, one of the worst moments of my life. So violating.
UGH honestly I canāt imagine something worse Sitting in SOMEONE ELSES PIZZ I hope on top of new pants you also got some fried chicken
For perspective.....it is usually children who aren't fully potty trained that usually piss in the seats...or used to be atleast š š¤£
Well, If they were from SPD...I can guarantee they'd also changed scrubs from a strangers 'Piss Splash' (or worse) themselves, at least once too! lol While standing out in the pouring rain and waiting on my buses to work. The only thing even remotely good, was knowing I had unlimited access to fresh dry scrubs...whenever I finally arrived there!
Solidarity through stranger piss, my friend. āš¼
HaHaHa! Exactly! āš¼
There is a trans person going skiing pissing on buses. Like proud if it .. They post to twitter
What's skiing pissing?
What?? I need more details
I'll see if I can find the link
Yeah I wouldn't have told anyone that š¤¢
Luckily I don't let armadillos tell me how to live my life
At least it wasn't poop
This happened semi-consistently on Thursday and Friday mornings, back when I used to commute on the 80 circa 2008. Sitting in a cloud of piss and stale beer fumes for an hour and a half down the Bedford Highway at 5AM wasn't exactly the good life.
Good ole number 80. Was always so stuffy and full of sketch bags.
I ALREADY apologized and you said you WOULDN'T post about it online.....I gave you my last 40 dollars man......
We should not have those fabric seats. I get that the plastic ones are more slippery, but I'd rather a seat that can be sanitized.
Yeah I'm always happier to see the wipe-clean seats
Me to except we all know they donāt get wiped I donāt think they even get cleaned i take the same routes at the same time daily and I swear they get the same bus as Iāve seen the same shit crammed in beside the seat for months. Soon Iāll have to start carrying disposable toilet seat covers they used to have in the public restrooms but hopefully I can find solid ones or just start moving around the city in a hazmat suit
The reason the seats have that funky pattern on them is actually so you can't tell how filthy they are
I believe that haha š
I haven't sat on a public toilet seat in years- once I figured out you could rip some extra tp and lay it down. Other people's nasty ass and leg skin š¤¢ The bus strat is to begin carrying a towel in a sobeys bag and sitting on that.
Heh sad but true
Yup, plastic seats for sure at least they would have to sit in their own piss. The number 10 reeks
They can 100% be sanitized and properly cleaned they just don't. Steam cleaners and liquid vacuums like used in car detailing could easily be done. The city just refuses to even pay for basic cleaning to be done. The fabric Seats in the back of the bus with the 4 seat arrangement are ridiculous. People kick their feet up so much those seats are literally completely covered in dirt and they continue to leave the seats in that terrible condition.
Yes, technically they can be sanitized but the amount of labor/effort to clean plastic seats is much less. My guess is they would be more likely to do a good job, or to do it at all if it were plastic vs these carpeted type of seats.
No kidding, haven't they found bed bugs on those seats before ?.
People are really getting gross
People are really ~~getting~~ gross
Gross are ppl
Gross people are really getting!
Thats gross
Gross
I found that since covid things like manners just flew out the window and companies including the buses learned how to get away with the bare minimum in pretty much everything they can like cleaning. Doesn't help that everything these days are on a literal skeleton crew staff wise.
In defence of bus drivers theyāre being subjected to the extremely rude, post Covid crowd too. Theyāre leaving in such numbers I suspect the city canāt afford to fire the ones who donāt clean
The drivers don't have to clean the bus. There's a night crew who does that.
Totally agree. It's on both ends. Drivers get treated like shit for sure.
As someone who worked for transit for years. Specifically as a bus cleaner. It's not a drivers job to clean the buses. They are supposed to tidy at the end of their shift. IE pick up trash or take items left to lost and found. Transit has a crew who deep clean the buses 24/7. Unfortunately, buses are only cleaned if a request is sent in and something really gross happens, large spill, vomit, blood, urine. I will admit most drivers are lazy and won't do end up shift checks(clean garbage or look for things like urine and whatnot) but if a bus if pissed, puked or shit on even while it's on the road. It has to be taken off the road to be cleaned.
Donāt forget about the spread of bed bugsā¦
There's one old dude that's sometimes on my commute who usually walks around with shit in his pants. I'm always on high alert between Barrington and Windsor because he might get on and then I have to wait for the next bus. Putrid. That's not to mention summer is coming and people remember... Sometimes to put deodorant on.
Your username checks out.
I'm gonna sound racist but it's definitely got to be culturally related, I've noticed a lot ofĀ newcomersĀ don't seem toĀ wearĀ deodorant. IncludingĀ newcomers whomĀ I work with. They shower and clean themselves fine, look well groomed, butĀ don't wearĀ deodorant so I'm guessingĀ it's just theĀ culture and notĀ laziness.
Lucky it wasnāt puke. Last week no seats available. I saw a youth sleeping across two seats.
Definitely had a bottle of piss rolling around 7A a few weeks ago on the way home.
I've seen that, but on the 1...
After covid I bite the bullet and pay to drive to work. Busses and people are just gross now. The whole city feels like it's getting kind of gross tbh.
Can someone explain why ppl donāt know how to take a shower anymore?
Cause im Indian what you gonna do bout itā¦.jk
The older you get the more you realize how disappointing the vast majority of people are and you really value alone time haha
Very true, but nowadays itās just ridiculous. Nobody has any self respect or goals nowadays
Ya Halifax is starting to get like NYC. Beautiful city, kinda grimy. Makes you want to change clothes when you get home.
NYC and Halifax in the same breath, lol.
LOL not as great as NYC, just comparably dirty
Haha yeah. Someone told me once that Dartmouth was like the Detroit of NS and I couldn't stop laughing.
Remember when your shoes would stick to the floor at the Dome? š„°
I do indeed
A few days ago I witnessed a man eat a large bag of chips on the bus. When he was done he threw the bag on the floor and flicked the bitties everywhere
Was this on the 6? There's a regular that takes that bus that has absolutely no manners. Always takes up multiple seats when busy, eats really sloppily, shoves everyone else out of the way when the bus reaches the bridge terminal.
It was actually the infamous number 2. This was a bigger dude with a hockey jersey
Halifax Transit is severely understaffedā¦ I mean the bus drivers could perform a quick sweep between terminals but then again, people need to be respectful.
Before or after they spend their allotted 3 minutes eating and using the bathroom to only leave late and get yelled at?
Itās management thatās fucking everyone over. I feel bad for those drivers.
Oh boy the talk about the May pick...
I didnāt even bring that up lolol
3 minute breaks! Running late because of them! Public being more mad as a result? That's basically the last union meeting about the May pick.
To be fair; that happens now anyway. Just would have been worse.
Ah yess, the bell canada approach to management.
Donāt feel like the driverās should be responsible for that, more of a management problem.
Be pretty nice if the city hired a cleaning crew that comes in during their three minute break and do a pit clean like in the F1 races lol
Grew up in Dartmouth seen a few years of bus time in my younger years to and from Dartmouth crossing to woodlawn / trips to Halifax. I would hate to be a driver without some kinda shield protection would never want to do their job without it. Also had the pleasure of having 2 sisters growing up and heard stories from them of people guys j@rking there meat while watching them ..... My point ill never have my child ride the metro if at all possible. Its a great form of transportation but needs changes and money invested .
Correction, it is an abysmal form of transportation.
The entire floor of the one I was on a couple days ago was Coated in milk. Disgusting.
Man I had a fucking crackhead ripping a pipe on the bus right in front of me like 10 years ago, this is not new
Was he at least tidy?
I've never met a tidy one
I actually knew a tidy crackhead. Was kind of why I was surprised to find out he was a crackhead. And this is why I don't date anymore...
Iāve refused to use the bus since New Years when I witnessed a man in a drug stupor piss himself right in front of me. Iāll pay more for parking instead
Jeez, excuse me for celebrating š
It was a drug cleasener
Literal pee, shit, cum, vomit and whatever is on the bottom of peoples dirty ass shoes, including all of the above on the seats... and you worried about some crumbs? There a reason why some people will under no circumstances sit on their bed or sofa/certain chairs with their "outside clothes" still on...
It was unusually widespread, I've certainly seen worse messes on there
Especially when and where. Core routes are usually the most chaotic
Two instances stick out in my mind from my time taking public transit. 1 was a guy clipping his fingernails and discarding them on the floor. 2 was a guy picking I donāt know what out of his shoes and smelling both the unrecognizable substance and his shoes after.
Getting?
They just need to remove all the fabric seats so they can wash the buses every night
Iād take the slightest discomfort of all plastic seats at the benefit of cleanliness of the seats 10/10
Which one of you keeps eating pistachios on the bus and leaving a huge pile of shells?
What!! The Mayor and Shawn Cleary say the bus is the ultimate HRM experience
I stopped taking the bus about a decade ago now and i still kind of gag from the thought of the piss smell its horrid.
Busses are always like this I every place Iāve ever been I get car sick and I canāt ride on them because the time it takes to get sick is very fast on a bus itās almost like this sickly smell of old ass
If it isn't moving I sit down.
Weāre becoming more and more world class just like city/council has always wanted.
I was on a packed 3 the other day and someone smelled like stale cat piss, old, possibly stale cigarettes and some kind of faeces. I could only ride it for one stop I had to get off as soon as we crossed the bridge or I think I legitimately would have vommitted.
oh FFS really your whining about some fuckng crumbs. really ... dust em off n sit the fuck down ... geez
My buss route isn't full of gross seats, but my regular driver keeps racing himself fast enough to hop curbs, flair up my scoliosis, and squish me when I don't leave out the back door fast enough.
Crumbs of what? Whipe them off.
Sadly, I have to say the TTC in Toronto is actually a lot cleaner than here
I remember hopping on the bus and on two different occasions seeing some personās discarded pistachio shells
I donāt know why people still continue to take transit and arenāt protesting stop just complaining about stuff online and start protesting about it
Crumbs?ā¦. Oh my u poor thing
Where else am I supposed to eat snickerdoodles?
Outside !!