One of the chief flaws of humans, as a thinking species, is our tendency to think of ourselves as original and creative....
Posted by Jonathan Dresner at December 7, 2006 01:20 PMYou should go read this guy's Vox blog. He talks about the light rail in two different posts, the latest one, got attention from Rocky Mountain News.
http://spencer.vox.com/
This is true, Jonathan. But who would have thought that people would find the spectacle of someone walking down a sidewalk so entertaining?
Posted by Anne at December 8, 2006 08:27 AMThanks for the link, Meg.
(Gray type on a black background--my favorite!)
I feel for the people who have lost their more convenient routes or who are making much longer commutes (Certainly I've whined enough about mine going from 25 minutes to 55 minutes.) because of extra transfers. It may sound minor to have to wait 10 minutes for a bus, but it doesn't take many of those intervals to make it feel like you spend your entire life going to and from work. Especially when it's 24 degrees.
People coming in from Parker who were used to having a comfy, uninterrupted 45 minutes to work or read or whatever--I can see how they'd miss that time.
I mean, it was my dream that taking public transport would give me extra time to read in a day, you know, but I find that taking two buses and a train each way means I'm not getting "extra time." I'm always having to keep an eye out for my next transfer point. (Plus which? Juggling a shoulder bag, a coat, gloves, and a scarf while standing on a train? Not really convenient to add a book or magazine to the load.)
Essentially I'm trading an hour of "free time" in a day for an hour of time where I can't do anything and I'm not really sure I find that a good trade. I mean, it's a nice planet and all, but....
I know. It won't always be winter and I can keep trying different shoulder bags until I find one that holds everything and doesn't weigh fifteen pounds (gotta ditch the leather) and the trains aren't always packed to the rafters. I'll get used to it. I'll learn to read in short spurts or find other interesting things I can do in ten-minute intervals.