The only way to get Aucklanders out of their cars onto public transport (and it’s not bloody pets)
An emotional support peacock waits to be allowed on a plane.
Oh. God. No.
Auckland Council is now thinking about letting people bring their fucking pets on board Public Transport.
NOOOOOOOOOO!
I don’t give two fucks that Wellington is considering allowing their bloody pets on public transport, that the capital of policing micro-aggressions is actively considering something is a good reason NOT to do it!
I have no problems whatsoever for guide dogs to be allowed on public transport but I’m not accepting bloody pets!
Will we honestly get to the point where emotional support peacocks are required?
How about Auckland Council just try to get public transport working before inviting zoos on board?
I’m gonna be PISSED off if I have to stand while someone’s pet gets a seat.
Look, I don’t know if anyone’s actually noticed, but climate change realities are here now. We need big ideas to get people out of their cars and onto public transport.
The first thing to do that is make public transport free, that’s how big the idea has to be, but allowing pets onto public transport?
No, no. no.
Pets on board public transport are a vanity for the owner that we simply shouldn’t have time for.
What happens if someones dog is on board, and then someones cat comes on board and they start fighting?
What happens if someone is allergic to dogs or cats?
What happens if the dogs start barking at each other?
Your pet is your responsibility, not my obligation to have to put up with on board a moving fucking vehicle.
Again, guide dogs – all fine with, that’s a social obligation we all must abide with to allow the disabled agency, but your precious fur baby? Not on my bus/train/plane thanks.
What a miserable rant. If peoples pets are well behaved there is no reason at all to stop them going on public transport, it’s common practice in lots of other places.
What if you need to take your pet to the vet and you don’t own a vehicle?
Obviously pets will need to be in cages when traveling on public transport… big dogs could be an issue here but I’m sure someone could come up with something to make it work.
Ho! Someone got out of the wrong side of bed!
Just think of it as research for your next novel “Snakes on a Bus”.
I’ll look forward to it…
I agree, Martyn :thumbsup:
Cuddle up to a cosy sheep, my friend, and embrace the animal kingdom, they may also have a soul of sorts, easy to discover.
Meanwhile, baah, baah on the buses, a great new tourist experience, in the land of the millions of sheep, they are even allowed onto buses and trains.
I’m with you Martin. Perhaps we could have a move in the other direction to ban certain human beings from public transport: the bores on their mobile phones, those with audible music coming from same, the smelly unwashed (including those reeking of fast food), those that sneeze or cough without putting a hand in front of their mouth, and those who push one’s items off the spare seat without a please or thank-you.
You are so wrong on this one M. No reason at all pets can’t go on public transport, they would either be on laps or on the floor and on leads, certsinly no taking passenger seats. And no pet owner would risk taking an unruly pet they couldn’t control on public transport.