real spit, do you work for metro? where does your love for busses come from? My personal experience with houston metro is that its terrible, nasty, never on time, and many other negative things
so im curious about your love for the bus game (especially in Houston), and how it developed...
No, I do not work for Metro....
Backstory as to why I love buses:
1) First and foremost: I like public transit's mission... serving the working class, elderly, the poor etc... It aligns with beliefs...
2) My dad was into vehicles; Trucks, Muscle cars etc... and a lot of that passed down to me...
3) My grandma bought me a lot of train sets; so early on I would "master plan" cities around the model train's rail lines....
4) I started to focus more on roads, service lanes and highways; I was Big collector, in the late 90s, of Houston Metro Bus schedules...
5) I would take the boxcars and pretend they were buses and place them on roads I outlined with my mom's yarn; They were influenced by bus routes: 65 Bissonnet & 68 Brays Bayou mostly/ in Austin the routes were the 1 North Lamar and 27 Dove Springs....
6) We used the bus a lot
; not only local but Greyhound/Kerrville Bus Company, where we would travel back and forth from Houston to Austin.....
So from all of that, I was pretty fond of buses...
......Middle School and High School halted everything.... those were my dark ages.....
I just recently rekindled my love of transit around 2008. When I graduated we moved back to Austin and I rode Capital Metro buses daily just touring the city with their dollar day pass...
........... getting to know drivers and more about the routes and transit in general; I was older understood a lot better.
Then these caught my attention:
So when we moved back to Houston in 2010, I purchased my camera to get few pics of them and one thing led to another and thats when I started to BusFan...... Austin really helped getting me back into transit...
I also found this site:
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County - CPTDB Wiki
^^^This is the wiki for bus enthusiast... It broke down a lot to me and I learned more about Bus manufacturers/Transmission manufactures.....
<--- when I found that site
This guy:
^^^ I met him in person.... Meeting him kept me interested in buses and represented somewhat of a capstone to all of this......
at this type of thread in The Coli, in JBO of all places
fukk the MTA breh
