Chicken Bus - does not include chickens
Stacey and I have gone on 3 chicken bus rides so far, all as part of “field trips” with groups from school. So we’ve never had to pay the Q1.5 fare (around 20 cents), figure out which bus to hop onto, or when to hop off. But still, it’s such an unusual experience that I felt like I needed to share some pics.
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- aren't they stylish?
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- not much room in the aisle!
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- it gets a little full!
Apparently, when a school or school district in the USA decides to retire vehicles from their fleet, they sell them to companies down here in Central/South America, and they get repurposed as public transportation. They’re constantly rumbling down the road, stopping whenever someone flags them down or when someone inside needs to get off. If you’re lucky, they don’t start rolling until you’re all the way on or off.
Also, you don’t pay when you first get on. You pay whenever the money guy makes his way down the aisle. And since people are constantly hopping on and off, he has to make a lot of trips. I don’t know how he keeps in his head who has paid and who hasn’t. It’s also a unique experience to have him squeezing by you when there are three people in every seat, and you’re standing in the aisle. Yeah, that’s lots of fun.
It’s just another way that life here is different from life in the U. S. of A… Along with the apparent non-enforcement of any traffic laws and absence of emissions tests! Chicken buses are great!
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