50 expired transfers
Let me start off by saying in the 5 years I’ve been riding the bus, I have never had anything strange happen on Route 70 (the route I ride 7 days a week), at least to me, the quietest route on the Metro Transit system. Today that changed.
It started on 5th & Minnesota at 10:15. This homeless lady hops on and has at least 50 expired transfers in the coin purse. Maybe you know who this person is. She rides the 16 (and other routes) round trip and sometimes sleeps in the 5th Street Transit Center behind the Target Center and has a soft voice.
Anyways, she gets on looking for a transfer. Then asks me to help, which at the point the driver tells me not to since he suspects that person doesn’t have one. After complaining for a few minuets, a transit supervisor happened to be driving down Minnesota Street. After the driver, the lady and the supervisor had a discussion, the driver gave up and told her to get on for free. Well she didn’t. She stayed and talked to the supervisor trying to find a current transfer. As she got off, she yelled at me and giving me this religious mumbo jumbo, which I just kept on saying “Have a Nice Day”. Delayed the bus by 10 minuets. I guess that proves to me even the quitest routes have strange things going on. Ha.
Jul 9th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
There is no such thing as a quite route!!!!