This is why I have a "public transportation" tag
This morning I was 45 minutes late for work because something was wrong with the railway control centre, signal tower, signal box something (Stellwerk. Dictionary is not helping here).
Anyway, so we were told to get off the train, get on another train and the bus service would start from there. The people travelling directly to the airport would have to take another train entirely meaning they were 25/30 minutes away from the airport and would now have to take the other way around the city, travel time roughly 1 hour. I hope they were all early for their flights.
So the group of us aiming for the bus service got off at the designated station and went hunting for the bus station. Of course there were no signs. We went left and watched the busses drive past us. We went right and watched the busses go past us again. I decided to go left again just because. Lo and behold a large mass of people and a bus station. Cue waiting. Oh, it's starting to rain, how nice.
10 minutes later a huge-ass bus arrives and everybody is storming the doors. I manage to squeeze inside. The driver welcomes us with a cheery hello and then "So I anyone could inform me where were're going next because I have no idea." See, he is an overland bus driver and has no clue how to get to the train stations. Hilarity ensues.
In the end the people with iphone navis queued up behind the driver so if the current navigator had to get off a new one could inform our driver where to go.
Didn't help because he had to skip one station because the huge bus couldn't squeeze into small streets.
When I finally arrived at work I saw my regular train arrive. I guess they fixed the problem. Thanks a lot.
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Anyway, so we were told to get off the train, get on another train and the bus service would start from there. The people travelling directly to the airport would have to take another train entirely meaning they were 25/30 minutes away from the airport and would now have to take the other way around the city, travel time roughly 1 hour. I hope they were all early for their flights.
So the group of us aiming for the bus service got off at the designated station and went hunting for the bus station. Of course there were no signs. We went left and watched the busses drive past us. We went right and watched the busses go past us again. I decided to go left again just because. Lo and behold a large mass of people and a bus station. Cue waiting. Oh, it's starting to rain, how nice.
10 minutes later a huge-ass bus arrives and everybody is storming the doors. I manage to squeeze inside. The driver welcomes us with a cheery hello and then "So I anyone could inform me where were're going next because I have no idea." See, he is an overland bus driver and has no clue how to get to the train stations. Hilarity ensues.
In the end the people with iphone navis queued up behind the driver so if the current navigator had to get off a new one could inform our driver where to go.
Didn't help because he had to skip one station because the huge bus couldn't squeeze into small streets.
When I finally arrived at work I saw my regular train arrive. I guess they fixed the problem. Thanks a lot.
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