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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Dale Ferguson lives in the Mathers neighbourhood. He is blind so he relies on the bus to take him most places. He goes to the downtown YMCA every day, which requires a transfer but takes less than half an hour. “Since I use Transit a lot, I know bus drivers are dealing with a lot of serious stuff.” Ferguson says Transit runs fairly well, but there are a few things he finds frustrating, “like what we are seeing here,” pointing to the bus-stop shelter that is mostly filled with a tent and homeless people. “Especially at Polo Park, and old people are standing outside in really cold weather and can’t get in out of the wind.” He often notices people getting on the bus without paying, wishes more people would give up their seats for older passengers and wants security on buses. He says he’s had some weird experiences riding the bus: “I was just getting on the bus and a lady from inside the bus jumped up and kicked me in the chest and knocked me onto the sidewalk. I didn’t see her coming and she kind of grabbed one of the bars on the bus and jumped up and kicked me in the chest. I fell back on to the sidewalk on my back, I wasn’t seriously hurt.” 231211 - Monday, December 11, 2023.