09-09-2021, 03:00 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-09-2021, 03:02 PM by danbrotherston.)
(09-09-2021, 02:02 PM)ac3r Wrote:(09-09-2021, 12:41 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Sarcasm? I hope? If not, you know we have taxis right?
Why do you assume it's sarcasm? A taxi costs more than a bus. If there was a bus that could get me to the airport for the cost of a coffee and would let me take a cheap flight out to Halifax, I'm more inclined to travel for fun to waste a few days wandering the a city with no goal in mind.
I like to travel. Spontaneously and light. A bag and a few dollars in cash. In most countries, I need nothing more than a bag, a sleeping bag or few dollars if a hotel is necessary. This could let me hop on the GRT, get on a plane to somewhere in the country and then wander around for next to nothing. Taxis and hotels are frivolous in my mind, unless absolutely required. I'm more of a Vagrant Holiday kind of traveller: https://youtu.be/BVSJvfitmuQ
And a plane ticket costs an order of magnitude more than either. A taxi ride to the airport is like 15 dollars. If you can afford a 200 dollar flight, it seems dubious that a 15 dollar taxi ride is what is stopping you.
A taxi is "frivolous" but at the same time it's the obstacle stopping your trip?
I'm sorry, our airport doesn't have anywhere near the passenger volume to justify regular transit service (even "flex" service). It is literally the archetypal example of elite projection (https://humantransit.org/2017/07/the-dan...ction.html).