I have to ride to bus to work or to the train station. I have to pay to ride the bus. What is the quality
of the buses? They are no better than the buses I rode in Bratislava in 1996. Some are exactly the same quality. Some are a little newer, so less dirty, but they all have seats that you could fall out of because the suspension in the buses is crappy. The buses shake and tilt excessively. What do I mean "excessively"? When I rode buses in North Carolina in 1997, the buses did not do that. So, these are Cheap buses.
So, technology is not being used to make the buses better.
However there is new technology in the buses. It is used to control passengers.
To get a lower priced ticket, you have to buy an electronic card that registers how much you have paid. That's a newer technology.
And you have to press that card against a large box when entering or leaving the bus. Which is, by the way, a real nuisance if the bus is crowded and you are carrying something. The other day a bus jerked from side to side and I dropped my card into the deep stairwell of the bus doors. (That's because the buses are so high off the ground---so high that you fall out of them or jump out of the rather than step out of them.)
And those electronic passenger monitoring boxes take up a lot of space.
Space that could be used for grab bars to hold on. (Because the buses do jerk a lot and shake from side to side, you really need to hold on.)
So, why is it so important that people register electronically? What would happen if we didn't pay at all? The point is that WE have to pay.
WE have to be controlled. When everybody knows damn well that there is a whole class of people who will never use public transport, and do not contribute to the well-being of society, namely the bankers who stole TRILLIONS of dollars or Euros. (I am referring to the Economic Crisis, also know as the Great Recession, or the Second Great Depression--which, by the way is really not over yet--no matter what you may happen to hear from corporate media.)
There is a whole class of people who do not pay taxes--or only pay a small amount of taxes, at a lower rate than the rest of us--and only take from us. That class includes politicians and bankers.
So technology is used to keep us down, to control us, to discipline us, to keep us in place. It is not used to make our lives better.
I could make similar complaints about the trains. And often this crap is plastered with signs telling us that the generous EU paid for it. As if they were doing us a favor.
Another example of technology in the buses is the absolutely idiotic and juvenile television on the buses. It is full of advertising and bogus public service announcements. EG idiotic games which allegedly test your intelligence, or bad attempts to teach English.
So you have crappy, low quality buses where the newest technology is used to control the population, to subdue us and fill our heads with garbage.
That's typical of the world I live in. My world has not gotten better because of technology.
Then again, there's the fact that buses and trains are crowded today, just as they were in 1996 in Bratislava. (So, Czechoslovakia has made lots of progress.)
Yet another obnoxious feature of the buses in Pardubice is that they tape paper notices and advertising onto the windows of the buses. Some buses have advertising painted from the outside so that the windows let in less light. All of these features make riding the buses justgoddamn unpleasant. But when they are collecting advertising money, now that's a real insult!
There's money being collected for advertising, but the buses are still crap. Now, that's real progress.
So, I really don't understand why the authorities of the bus system in Pardubice think they have a reason to celebrate. They've been spending money advertising their anniversary. They should spend that money improving the bus system with better buses. Or, maybe they could let the bus drivers have an extra day off--or shorter schedules. Instead, they spend the money on propaganda. That tells you something. But the video below is just so cool. Yeah, right. That video makes my bus ride so much more enjoyable.
http://www.dpmp.cz/den-otevrenych-dveri-2015/
Talk about delusions of grandeur!
However there is new technology in the buses. It is used to control passengers.
To get a lower priced ticket, you have to buy an electronic card that registers how much you have paid. That's a newer technology.
And you have to press that card against a large box when entering or leaving the bus. Which is, by the way, a real nuisance if the bus is crowded and you are carrying something. The other day a bus jerked from side to side and I dropped my card into the deep stairwell of the bus doors. (That's because the buses are so high off the ground---so high that you fall out of them or jump out of the rather than step out of them.)
And those electronic passenger monitoring boxes take up a lot of space.
Space that could be used for grab bars to hold on. (Because the buses do jerk a lot and shake from side to side, you really need to hold on.)
So, why is it so important that people register electronically? What would happen if we didn't pay at all? The point is that WE have to pay.
WE have to be controlled. When everybody knows damn well that there is a whole class of people who will never use public transport, and do not contribute to the well-being of society, namely the bankers who stole TRILLIONS of dollars or Euros. (I am referring to the Economic Crisis, also know as the Great Recession, or the Second Great Depression--which, by the way is really not over yet--no matter what you may happen to hear from corporate media.)
There is a whole class of people who do not pay taxes--or only pay a small amount of taxes, at a lower rate than the rest of us--and only take from us. That class includes politicians and bankers.
So technology is used to keep us down, to control us, to discipline us, to keep us in place. It is not used to make our lives better.
I could make similar complaints about the trains. And often this crap is plastered with signs telling us that the generous EU paid for it. As if they were doing us a favor.
Another example of technology in the buses is the absolutely idiotic and juvenile television on the buses. It is full of advertising and bogus public service announcements. EG idiotic games which allegedly test your intelligence, or bad attempts to teach English.
So you have crappy, low quality buses where the newest technology is used to control the population, to subdue us and fill our heads with garbage.
That's typical of the world I live in. My world has not gotten better because of technology.
Then again, there's the fact that buses and trains are crowded today, just as they were in 1996 in Bratislava. (So, Czechoslovakia has made lots of progress.)
Yet another obnoxious feature of the buses in Pardubice is that they tape paper notices and advertising onto the windows of the buses. Some buses have advertising painted from the outside so that the windows let in less light. All of these features make riding the buses just
There's money being collected for advertising, but the buses are still crap. Now, that's real progress.
So, I really don't understand why the authorities of the bus system in Pardubice think they have a reason to celebrate. They've been spending money advertising their anniversary. They should spend that money improving the bus system with better buses. Or, maybe they could let the bus drivers have an extra day off--or shorter schedules. Instead, they spend the money on propaganda. That tells you something. But the video below is just so cool. Yeah, right. That video makes my bus ride so much more enjoyable.
http://www.dpmp.cz/den-otevrenych-dveri-2015/
Talk about delusions of grandeur!
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