[wyliepoon]

I was riding one of the new TTC hybrid buses (#1289) heading eastbound on the 53 Steeles East route. One weird thing about this bus is that when a passenger makes a stop request, the resulting sound sounds nothing like a bell, but is more like a squeal...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYZF8ghnm8

The culprit... it's that black overhead speaker just behind the rear doors. No more real bells like on older buses.

 

[theowne]

That is the strangest sound I've ever heard.....perhaps there was something wrong with that bus?

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

deliverance; squeal like a bus?

sounds like that bus was being sodomized by a hillbilly with bad teeth in the georgia wilderness.

 

[khris]

Hilarious! omg haha.
There has to be a problem with the speaker. There just has to be.

 

[junctionist]

Today on Eglinton near Black Creek I saw a new bus with a malfunctioning side route information sign. It was flickering quickly.

 

[ShonTron]

Actually, one of the strangest stop request sounds has to be the low-pitched quack on some of the New Flyer buses in the Grand River Transit fleet, unless they fixed it in the past few years.

 

[Cast_Member]

Maybe there were mice hitching a ride?

 

[Hydrogen]

Maybe the bus has a cold.

 

[adma]

How about a bus making Meg Ryan/Herbal Essences noises?