Well, I’m bitter now about the airport.
My late flight lands, I get my luggage and I go to the Sky Shuttle booth. I want to take a shuttle bus to a hotel near where I live. I don’t have any other options unless I want to pay a lot for a taxi. (I’m unemployed and I can’t just throw money around.) I arrive at 11:38 PM, and am told that the next bus won’t leave until 1:00 AM.
What. The. Hell?
The Sky Shuttle has this new “Green” policy, which looks more like a “Cheap” policy. They won’t leave or pick-up until they have to. Since they have no busses to spare, I’m stuck waiting for the last one. Previously they used to have regular departures. Now I realize that may not be the most efficient method, but face it, the airport location is far from the city. Taxi rides are expensive to and from here. If you are going to be this far away, you need to have a regular service to get people into the city. Otherwise you have situations like this where I’m stuck in a waiting room for over an hour.
Cranky and tired.
And venty!
I can’t call anyone to pick me up; it’s far too late at night and I don’t want to wake someone up. I don’t like imposing on friends at the best of times.
An hour ago, I was all in favour of closing the downtown airport. Now, I’m thinking we need to shut down the international and consolidate our service in Calgary. If Edmonton wants to act like a cheap podunk town, it should be treated like one. All our flights to go to Calgary.
Cities have a transit system no to make money. It is there to help the citizens. The Sky Shuttle now feels like it is not there for the travellers.
This is reflecting very poorly on Edmonton.