Limits on bars and restos to end this month
Pandemic limits on bars and restaurants will come to an end after Halloween.
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GC 20:05 on 2021-10-14 Permalink
Have people seen a lot of restaurants where the tables are *actually* two metres apart? I’ve only been in a few, but they generally have the same table layout that they had before the Pandemic. In the case of one of my old favourites, I have not been inside yet but I noticed they had hung up new barriers. For all the others…no obvious changes.
Blork 21:59 on 2021-10-14 Permalink
Coincidentally, I had my first indoor restaurant meal of the pandemic tonight (Il Focolaio on Phillips Square) and I was noting how spaced-out it was compared to the before times. A nice ice breaker, and I left thinking “this is doable.” For the record, even before the pandemic I was annoyed at the crowding of restaurants. I don’t like it when the strangers to my left and right are closer to me than my date right in front of me. Maybe I’ll just eat out a lot over the next two weeks and then go back into exile.
BTW I also broke the ice on public transit tonight – first time since March 2020. The rides themselves were fine, but don’t even get me started (again) on the OPUS situation…
Except for this: is it normal that I can ONLY LOAD SINGLE TICKETS onto a new OPUS card? So if I want six tickets I need to do six separate transactions? What the F-ing F!?
Kate 23:46 on 2021-10-14 Permalink
Blork, I have an Opus new since mid-July (when I lost the one I’d had for years). I can load 10 tickets on there no problem. Are you buying special platinum South Shore tickets?
Blork 00:26 on 2021-10-15 Permalink
Not at all. I tried at two different machines – one at terminus Longueuil and one at McGill – and both would only let me buy one ticket at a time.
Spi 09:49 on 2021-10-15 Permalink
Did you chose “new fare” or reload? If I remember correctly if you chose reload then it will only show you the options for tickets previously held on that card and new opus cards have to be issued with at least one fare most of the time it’s a single ticket.
MarcG 10:23 on 2021-10-15 Permalink
OPUS is such a clunky system, it’s like they didn’t do any user experience testing at all
Blork 11:31 on 2021-10-15 Permalink
Spi, I don’t remember, but I’ll keep that in mind next time I try. MarcG is correct that the system is clunky and seems to have zero effort put into usability.