You know you're in trouble when...

[omahas]

Last week, when waiting at the nearest bus stop for the 132, I noticed a warning sign at the bus stop. The stop would be closed starting 4/25, because construction would be starting on Des Moines Memorial Drive up ahead and the road would be closed for about a mile. Board the bus on Ambaum (the road that forked off of this one just a 100 feet south

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[whatthehay]

Suppose this was a new job for this guy and his previous job was driving a bunch of high school girls through an overpass that was too small for the height of the bus (but, hey!, the GPS SAID to take this route!)?

Actually, having to tell the driver's the route happens a little to often on our route (the 311). Can't understand why.

[omahas]

Bwahahaha!!

I remember one time years ago that I got on a route 20 (which doesn't exist anymore). The stop I was at is the last stop before the bus is supposed to take a left fork and drive up a ramp onto a bridge and freeway access.

Now, it's hard to fault this driver, because this particular area is pretty confusing, but he had several of us trying to tell him that he was going the wrong way. He took the right-hand fork. Then, it got worse when he tried to turn around...we told him he could get back onto the freeway if he took another lower bridge access. Instead, he drove down the wrong side, and ended up heading back down the direction he had just come down another street that he couldn't get access to the freeway from.

But wait, there's more. He tried to literally turn the bus around in a 180 on this two lane street...and got stuck on the railway that parallels the street. Twenty-minutes later he finally gave up trying to get onto the freeway, and I knew that I wasn't going anywhere. He had to call a bus tow-truck. Heh.