09-09-2021, 04:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2021, 04:44 PM by danbrotherston.)
(09-09-2021, 03:43 PM)ac3r Wrote: 15 dollars saved is 15 dollars saved. I welcome the bus trial. I would have expected you of all people to be happy about such an announcement, not tell people they should just hire a private car and automatically assume they're joking for wanting otherwise.
It's an international airport with growing passenger numbers. There ought to be options to get there besides owning or hiring a vehicle to get them there. This is a good thing.
Sounds to me like you've never travelled the way I do, by thinking "if you can afford the plane you can afford all else". I could afford 5 star hotels if I wanted, but that's not me. I like to roam around and spend as little as possible, experiencing cities in unique ways. A plane ticket is one thing, but I'll happily sleep on benches or couch surf on the couch a cute girl in a bar offers me. If I don't need to spend money on taxis and hotels and all that, I prefer it more. So yeah, a cheap GRT bus ride to YKF to get to Halifax so I can wander around and see where fate takes me is my preference. Of course, I could walk, but it's humid in the summer, yeah? That sort of ad hoc travel is what makes travel fun.
I am a pragmatist. I want to see our resources spent in the most effective ways possible, even if those ways don't benefit me as much as other ways. I fly out of the airport, I've taken a taxi there a few times, if there was a bus (that was convenient) I'd use it.
But if I can take a taxi to the airport and that bus can instead carry more passengers serving another destination...that's a better use of resources.
As for how I travel, well, I'm certainly not going to be sleeping rough, nor am I planning on ... what did they call it in HIMYM ... paratrooping...banging for roof. But I certainly don't stay in 4 star hotels, in fact, I haven't stayed in any hotels on my own dime at least for a decade or so.