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Or at least as many as I can type before I have to run to catch said bus 
This week has been special, let's start with Mr. Crazy. He has become a regular
on the 811, he always walks back and forth up and down the bus, moving seats, scratching his back using the card reader for electronic passes, and dancing to music that no one else can hear... if he's in a good mood he'll even start to rap... at least I think that's what he is trying to do...
Oh, we also have a new bus driver who, oh special just about comes close to describing him. At the 123rd south exit on the freeway, there is two turn lanes to go right, he needs to turn left almost immediately after turning right, which lane do you think he goes into? If you said the left of the two right hand turn lanes, well dear reader, you have a lot more faith in this guy than you should, no he wants to chance turning before the light turns green (which is never possible on 123rd, it just isn't, don't try, you will get hurt), so he ends up cutting off three lanes of traffic every single time he exits on 123rd to go over to State street.
eta- since I like visuals
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That is the intersection, he always uses the right lane of the two right hand turn lanes going north off the exit, then has to fight his way over to the left hand turn lanes of that intersection so close to the freeway that you can spit and hit it from the freeway
Speaking of special driving antics, that pothole on the access road to the AmFork Frontrunner station (why it's open when they haven't even finished building the Frontrunner extension out that far is beyond me) has been there over a month, you've hit it every day this week, there is no traffic on that road, ever, so why don't you just avoid it?
Oh, the stupid question people are asking more and more often "does this train go north"
This is at the Sandy Civic Center station, the track physically does not extend south of that station, you can see where it ends from the station...
I want to tell someone, "no, it goes south, this is one of those new trains that doesn't actually need rails to follow or overhead power lines to draw electricity from"
On that note, the first door of any train has always been off limits to bikes, there are multiple signs on the platform and on the trains... why to bikes insist on trying to enter the first door of the train at Sandy Civic Center?
And my personal favorite from the week was the idiot who stood stupid at the door, staring at the sign that said "push button to exit" waited until the train started moving, ran up to the driver cabin, and started pounding on it yelling "why the fuck didn't you open the doors mother fucker... how the fuck do you expect us to get off the train"... yeah, officers were waiting for him at the next station, to... show him how the doors worked... among other things.
This week has been special, let's start with Mr. Crazy. He has become a regular
on the 811, he always walks back and forth up and down the bus, moving seats, scratching his back using the card reader for electronic passes, and dancing to music that no one else can hear... if he's in a good mood he'll even start to rap... at least I think that's what he is trying to do...Oh, we also have a new bus driver who, oh special just about comes close to describing him. At the 123rd south exit on the freeway, there is two turn lanes to go right, he needs to turn left almost immediately after turning right, which lane do you think he goes into? If you said the left of the two right hand turn lanes, well dear reader, you have a lot more faith in this guy than you should, no he wants to chance turning before the light turns green (which is never possible on 123rd, it just isn't, don't try, you will get hurt), so he ends up cutting off three lanes of traffic every single time he exits on 123rd to go over to State street.
eta- since I like visuals
Google maps view
That is the intersection, he always uses the right lane of the two right hand turn lanes going north off the exit, then has to fight his way over to the left hand turn lanes of that intersection so close to the freeway that you can spit and hit it from the freeway
Speaking of special driving antics, that pothole on the access road to the AmFork Frontrunner station (why it's open when they haven't even finished building the Frontrunner extension out that far is beyond me) has been there over a month, you've hit it every day this week, there is no traffic on that road, ever, so why don't you just avoid it?
Oh, the stupid question people are asking more and more often "does this train go north"
This is at the Sandy Civic Center station, the track physically does not extend south of that station, you can see where it ends from the station...
I want to tell someone, "no, it goes south, this is one of those new trains that doesn't actually need rails to follow or overhead power lines to draw electricity from"
On that note, the first door of any train has always been off limits to bikes, there are multiple signs on the platform and on the trains... why to bikes insist on trying to enter the first door of the train at Sandy Civic Center?
And my personal favorite from the week was the idiot who stood stupid at the door, staring at the sign that said "push button to exit" waited until the train started moving, ran up to the driver cabin, and started pounding on it yelling "why the fuck didn't you open the doors mother fucker... how the fuck do you expect us to get off the train"... yeah, officers were waiting for him at the next station, to... show him how the doors worked... among other things.
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