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[1] I assume buses use diesel.
[2] Heh. Business -> bus-iness -> bus-ness, Monsters!
Long Term Goals
19 hours ago
Saturday 10 January 2009
Five flippin' seventy ...
... for a twenty minute bus ride home! The bloody country's in recession for crying out loud. The price of fuel has dropped below a euro a litre for the first time in ages so you'd figure we'd be gifted a moment's financial repose by the conglomerates of our aggrieved nation. It's a fifty cent hike on the previous damned disbursement. After a $100 reduction in the cost of a barrel and even with their skimming by the 8-cent fuel levee scott free[1] the heads of Bus Eireann accommodate the good people of Ireland, in these their reclining years, on these the good people who maintain their business[2], by kicking them right in the wallet, five hundred and seventy times a journey. The drivers' wages are frozen by the weakening economy so why do they need so much more of our money? Apart from the obvious capitalistic (damned capitalism and statistics) reasons I honestly can't fathom why they had a good feeling about this. Nor have I heard how it was spun. Perhaps they thought we wouldn't notice, but let this angry blog bear witness that the controlled indignity that has been dealt to us has been espied.
[1] I assume buses use diesel.
[2] Heh. Business -> bus-iness -> bus-ness, Monsters!
[1] I assume buses use diesel.
[2] Heh. Business -> bus-iness -> bus-ness, Monsters!
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Niall, I agree whole heartedly with you comment. €5.70 is way too much, especially the cost of a ticket to Dublin is around €12 now. But remember, that €5.70 is a return ticket. €3.10 for the single 20 minute bus ride.
I'd agree with you if you'd let me be a dancer! Geez I hate the bus service.
And considering the sterling exchange rate, that's just shy of my week's wages. With all my money spent proverbially on the bus system how can i afford to insure my legs in case of the public transport conglomerates extending their wrath to cripple my legs, ensuring MY having to get the bus all the time.
Ow the spiral.
Ow the knees.
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