Long live public transportation!

As you might have noticed I've changed the haloscan comments to blogger comments, as I'd heard from two different people that the comments weren't working properly on their computer. So, that's why all the previous comments are gone.

Last Monday the summer holiday bus timetable started and it's an absolute hell! In the morning it's not much of a problem, but when I have to go home between 16.30 and 17.30 it's dreadful. I don't understand why they start with the "holiday" timetable when everyone still has to go to school and work and obviously doesn't have a holiday yet! Normally around rush hour there are six busses an hour (of which 4 are so called 'sneldiensten'), but now there are only two, so all the people who are normally divided over three busses have to go on one single bus.

You probably get the picture. The stop I get on is the first stop after the bus leaves from the station, but by that time the bus is already chock-full. It's truly amazing how many people can fit in one bus if they have to. It's just the one thing you can't take when you've had to get up at 6.20 in the morning, have worked hard the entire day, are hungry and dying to get home. Having to stand for almost an hour, too close to people to be comfortable, trying to hold yourself up the entire time and the bus getting hotter and more oppresive by the minute.

Long live the Dutch public transportation system! Grmbl....