Day 10 - No Cars
Jason's tips for successful public transportation :
1. Patience. Maybe its because the woman next to me is sighing loudly and constantly checking her watch, but it seems to me that patience is a key to navigating the public transit system. I'll be honest with you, sometimes buses and trains are late, or delayed, or simply missing. No amount of toe-tapping will change that. If waiting's not your thing, you might be better off in a car.
But, if you can settle into the rhythm of the system you'll be rewarded. I tell myself, I'm just a small part of this big organism. It has tentacles that reach to every corner of the city. Ferrying people like blood cells in a vast network of veins.
Waiting for a pickup is just a small part of the experience.
posted by Jason Hill at 7:13 PM
4 Comments:
I'm all for practicing patience but when it is 15 degrees out and it's been 1 1/2 hrs since I arrived at the bus stop and the tri-met text message keeps telling me that it will now be here in 8 min, 2 min, 10 min, 5 min until the next bus shows, I just wish it would tell me it will be 2 hrs before the next bus and I would choose to go to the mall while I wait to warm up! That's all I have to say.
That may be all you have to say, Kaelea, but you have spoken volumes. Waiting in the cold is the worst--especially when you are getting bad information. Sometimes I wish I had the cell number for the driver, then I could find out where the bus really is!
So are you saying that TriMet doesn't revolve around you?
life seems to move much slower when it's powered by your own legs.
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