I’ve been using TriMet since the days of the aluminum-and-orange buses. You’d think I know the ropes. And yet a few niggling things always bother me. Perhaps some advice is needed.
I often wait for buses in locations where several bus lines use the same stop. I have to stand there and wait for my particular bus, while somehow letting the buses I don’t need know that I don’t need them to stop.
Sometimes I am bold enough to wave at them. Sometimes I passive-aggressively turn away and “ignore” the bus so it knows I don’t want it. Sometimes I wave but then feel stupid because the bus stops anyway to let someone off. Maybe a wave is confusing; maybe it looks like I want the bus to stop. Thumbs down seems rude. I want to do the right thing, but I don’t know what it is.
What is the best way to signal a TriMet bus that it’s not the one you want? Something tells me there’s a protocol I should know about.
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I’d suggest using thee old “Moon or Melons” move.
Shirt up and show em the twins if you want a stop.
Turn around, pants down, grab yer ankles if you want em to keep on move’n.
I just shake my head “no” – seems to work.
In the morning, one of the buses I catch is on Multnomah where four buses stop plus a C-Tran. Shaking my head “no” seems to work. Sometimes the driver waves as if to say, “Thanks for not making me stop so I have to sit here and open the door in vain.”
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