No Bus To Work For Me

Last week sometime, on the news, they talked about how employees at the new mall are unimpressed with their sad excuse for a transit system to get out there. As of right now, there are two bus routes: one comes to our town and has ONE stop here, and one stop in Calgary; the other has two stops in Calgary. That just isn't doing the trick, obviously. Apparently people are missing busses because they sometimes get delayed, or more importantly, the busses fill up and people have to wait at least an hour and a half for the next bus ... at which point they are generally late for work.

This morning, they had some semi-good news regarding that bus schedule: they are adding one bus. This is alright news ... but uh ... one bus just isn't going to do the trick.

This bus will most likely be another Calgary route, which makes sense, because Calgary is certainly a lot bigger than Airdrie, but ... why not add more busses? I'm sure a huge percentage of the mall's employees have to take the bus in ... so shouldn't the mall be willing to make it a lot easier for them? We're the ones working in the damn mall ... we have to get there somehow.

I would LOVE if they'd add another bus that comes to Airdrie. We need more than one stop here. Right now, the bus stops at Co-op -- that would be about a 40 minute walk for me. I could walk there, but the bus closest to my shift when I work at 5 comes at 3:45 ... and Richard isn't home until 3:40. So there is no time for him to drive me there when he gets home, nor is there time for me to walk there. If Aden wasn't a factor, obviously it would be a different story ... but with him involved, I can't just leave before Richard is home from work.

It would be perfect if they would change the exsisting Airdrie route and add another. They could have two stops. One centrally-located on the west side of town, and one centrally-located on the east side. Stopping at Co-op is stupid. Co-op, I should add, is almost as far south in Airdrie as you can get -- what about the people living in the south end??

FIX IT, damn mall!!