Public transport

[Rye]

Last week with Huxley, we spent a lot of time taking public transport. Being someone who is accustomed to driving everywhere, it was kind of a shock! It was the first time I ever took a bus. I actually really like it. On this bus, Hux and I would listen to music or have really deep conversations about the election, or literature, or the future. It was kind of weird, because everyone else was discussing partying or buying potato chips or something. But overall, the bus was cool. It was cheap and very clean. We only had one very mean bus driver, who started yelling at me like a psycho.

We also took the AMTRAK, which was pretty cool, I liked it there, and so did Huxley, when he wasn't overwhelmingly motion sick. I prefer the LIRR, tbh, but both are cool. We played on my computer during it, wrote, and editted photos and such. <3

He took the subway for the first time, and he thought it was okay. The subway isn't so bad when it isn't summertime. Waiting for it to come was fun, we played rock paper and scissors.

Most of the time, we took the taxi. I love taxis, we got a really cool cab drivers, who told us about their adventures in earthquakes and blizzards and stuff! Huxley was motion sick on there too though, poor boy! ;;

Overall, the train is my favorite!

Do you like public transport? Which is your favorite?

[Madame Adequate]

My only real problem with the subway was that it distinctly lacked anything approaching a schedule.

I don't really like travelling much, it takes time away from stuff I'd rather do. But RIPTA buses were astonishingly good. Mostly on time, unbelievably cheap (I was telling Dan about it earlier and he just laughed at the concept of getting from Leicester to Nottingham for $1.75 (90p). You can't even get from my house to Leicester town center for 90p.)

I also don't enjoy travel much because, as Jess said, I get motion sick. It's better than it used to be, but it's still pretty bad. Well, it's better because it doesn't make me feel as bad as it used to - it's worse because it seems to be caused by more things now.

[Spatvark]

I like public transport, in that it's transport where I'm not driving. Getting behind the wheel scares the bejeezus out of me. That said, there are times when public transport is a horror, most notably in the dead of summer. I remember getting stuck on a subway platform in London at about two in the afternoon, with approximately three hundred other people. It was not fun.

[Shlup]

I like to take the train places! When we went to Alaska we got to ride on a big fancy train and it was awesome. I want to take a train to Seattle soon.

[Rye]

The train that I took in Italy was actually the nicest train I ever took. It was big, lots of space, huge windows for looking at the scenery!

[Yar]

I'm an elitist, so public transportation with the "common folk" is simply a no-no.

[Roto13]

I used to take the Vancouver skytrain to work every day. It was pretty awesome. It was like riding the monorail in the Simpsons. :P

[Yar]

I used to take the Vancouver skytrain to work every day. It was pretty awesome. It was like riding the monorail in the Simpsons. :P

"I call the big one Bitey."

[kikimm]

The public transport down here in New Zealand is really . Buses are often really late, or really early, or sometimes never even show up at all. And they break down. So every time we've had to take the bus I've been real anxious the whole time cause you never know what's going to happen.

Sweden was a totally different story. Buses, trains and things, arrived *exactly*, to the minute, when they said they would, it was so great.

Aaaaaand back home where I live in California, public transport is pretty much nonexistent.

Anyways, even when all that stuff runs great it's not so fun for me because I too have extremely bad motion sickness, and it also is getting worse for me it seems like! Before, I could sit in the back of a car and as long as I was looking at the road or not trying to read a book I'd be fine, but now if I'm in the back no matter what it seems like, I feel as though I am going to barf barf barf. Ugh.

[Rye]

I'm an elitist, so public transportation with the "common folk" is simply a no-no.

That's how I used to feel! But it's actually kind of fun! I still prefer my nice car though.

[Madame Adequate]

I'm an elitist, so public transportation with the "common folk" is simply a no-no.

You're in America. The "common folk" have cars.

[Tavrobel]

You're in America. The "common folk" have cars.

Depends on how much you like dealing with traffic. But you'll inevitably have a car anyways.

I don't like public transportation that much, but I've yet to go into the city on a daily basis. Plus, I'm dealing with Metro.

[Momiji]

You're in America. The "common folk" have cars.

Depends on how much you like dealing with traffic. But you'll inevitably have a car anyways.

I don't like public transportation that much, but I've yet to go into the city on a daily basis. Plus, I'm dealing with Metro.

I'd honestly rather take the bus to school so I wouldn't have to worry as much about gas prices, but it doesn't come anywhere near my mom's or dad's house. So I'm forced to drive.

[Roto13]

I'm seriously never ever buying a car. I'm going to live in downtown Toronto and take public transit everywhere because owning a car is like owning a separate family you have to constantly be feeding and taking care of. Screw that crap.

[rubah]

I like to ride my bike around campus! And the campus has started a bike sharing program like they have in some big cities, and people are actually using them! There's also razorback transit which goes to certain places in town and is free.

I used the bus extensively in besançon, they had a nice website with their up-to-the-minute time table