A WTF On The Rainbow Bridge

[bellefior]

Recently, I was with business colleagues near Buffalo, NY.  Since we arrived the day before the actual business part of the trip was to take place, we decided to go over to Niagara Falls, NY to check out the Falls.  All of us had brought passports with us just in case we decided to go over onto the Canadian side.

Comments

[mamierock]

I don't get how this is bad service (even wtf bad service) at all.

[bellefior]

I dunno, most of us thought that having to pay to get back onto the bridge that we needed to walk over to get back into the US was kind of weird. I've never seen anything like that before, and neither had anyone else we were with. We've paid tolls for crossing bridges in cars. We've paid fares if we were traveling by bus or train, but that's the first time any one of us had ever been charged a toll to walk.

[mamierock]

But just because it is the first time you've ever encountered it doesn't mean that it is bad service.

[bellefior]

I guess we'll just have to disagree on this one then. Because everyone we told the story to, after they stopped laughing because they couldn't believe it, agreed it was the most ridiculous thing they had ever heard of to charge pedestrians to walk back over the bridge, which is the only way you get back into the US. If there is any place else that does something like this to pedestrians, I would love to hear about it. All of us are pretty well travelled, so this was a first for us.

[bellefior]

I think paying an entrance fee into a museum is a lot bit different from paying to walk over a bridge back into the US. And I have never seen a public toilet where you have to pay to use it. There are public toilets, and then there are pay-per-use toilets, which to me are not one and the same. If I were at city hall or Grand Central Station, for example, and had to pay to use the toilet while I was in there, then yes, I would find that ridiculous.

[squirlymoo]

Many public restrooms in Europe charge a fee. Which is why I always had tissues in my purse, because it sucked to spend your money on a stall and then have that stall be out of TP, lol.

[thegreatmouton]

The toilet was free, but not the tp? That's not sexist at all...

[perfectfigure]

The bridge still has to be paid for??? I don't understand your logic.