101 Things I Love About Sydney

We love Sydney buses. If you ever need to get to Bondi Beach or travel down Parramatta Road and you're a poor ass and don't own a car, then chances are you've traveled by a Sydney bus. In fact you can travel anywhere you need to get to, so long as it's on the lower North shore, Eastern suburbs or Inner West. These areas are extremely well serviced by buses due to the lack of other transport infrastructure and low income in these areas. But please note, travelling between these places, like from say Bondi to Newtown, is ill-advised as it will probably involve going through the city, changing buses and walking, all of which is scary at night.

Bus tickets can be bought on board from a grumpy dwarf known as the driver, or you can pre-buy tickets known as "Traveltens" or "Travelpases" which are dipped in the green ticket readers on board. On mass, these tickets cost more than similar quantities of street drugs, and are often harded to obtain on Sydney streets at night.

Some people say Sydney buses are over-priced and over-crowded. Well move to friggin Kempsey or Canberra then, those buses are plenty empty, you just can't get home at say, 3am on a Saturday morning like you can in Sin City.

The reason I Sydney buses comes in at number one on our list of things to love about Sydney is their speed and efficiency. On Tuesday I saw a woman lying unconcious in the middle of the Parramatta Road bus lane the other day, hit by the L38 - which proves it really is an express. It doesn't even stop if a pedestrian jumps in front of it! Don't believe me? Well a recent rumour has both the Butcher of Bega and Bundaberg's Doctor Death applying to be Sydney bus drivers, to quench their thirst for strangers blood.

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