Reply To: Mehadrin buses – too much for me?

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JayMatt19: your previous post has it completely right. I don’t care about the 402, I don’t care about Mehadrin things, people can do whatever they want, and I can take a non-Mehadrin bus. That isn’t the issue. It is exactly as you say: there should have been a 400. This whole thing revolves around Egged’s failure to provide proper buses, and worse, their failure to correct it. I told numerous drivers that I had been waiting for 10, 15, 25, 25, 30 minutes… and until 00:13, each of them told me “there is nothing I can do”, “he is right behind me”, “I don’t have anyone I can call”, etc. All just evading responsibility. And me? Stay behind? What was I supposed to do?

Again, I reiterate that usually I don’t mind sitting in the middle, on a Mehadrin bus. I take the 402 (and 426) plenty of times and sit in the middle. But on this evening, both me and my wife were not feeling well, and due to my car (well, bus) sickness issue, we decided to davka take the 400 so that we could sit in the front.

I am *not* complaining about Mehadrin buses. I myself don’t see a need for them, but if others want that, fine with me. However, people should be a bit more open-minded. In this case I had no other options. As I mentioned earlier, we had a two-way tickets, and I should mention that I lost my job two months ago and am living from an empty bank account, so taking a taxi or anything like that isn’t really realistic (especially with two two-way bus tickets in my hand!).

I do, however, find it very annoying that the last 400 is supposed to leave at 23:40 and the last 402 at 1:00. (And the last 480 at 00:05 from Arlozorov.) Why should there *only* be Mehadrin buses late at night? I do think it would be fair to demand that if there are late-night Mehadrin buses, there should also be non-Mehadrin buses at that time – either 400 or 480. But well, that isn’t the issue here.