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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2006, 07:59:28 pm »
Quote from: Hobot on May 08, 2006, 06:05:58 pm
Most cities in these United States have rather craptastic systems of public transportation, due to exceedingly poor urban planning.

DC has admitted that the metro system was conceived assuming that people would commute into the city in the morning and out in the evening. People needing to get from one suburb to another wasn't even considered during planning as it was so unlikely that none of the planners even thought of it.

But now so many jobs are in what were once considered exurbs that the entire metro system is useless to most people because it doesn't extend far enough out. And the exurbs either have no buses at all or can only afford to run them during rush hour and only one way. So forget about taking the public transit into the office on a weekend or for 2nd shift. And god forbid you want to run errands after work or on weekends because buses don't go to shopping centers. Oh, and btw it costs $7 one way.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2006, 08:23:53 pm »
god damn you people.
charlotte has no public transportation, other than buses. which don't stop anywhere near my house.

the nearest book store is a 10 minute drive away.
the good record store is downtown-- about an hour away.
the slightly worse record store is 30 minutes away.

I hates it. I hates it.

of course, just as I'm moving away, they're building a big cool shopping thing near me, where there will be bookstores, coffeeshops, and an "Art" movie theater. the movie theater is complete-- it kicks ass.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2006, 08:39:05 pm »
Speaking of DC - I actually do live in a suburb right at the edge of the city (like I am ten blocks from the border) and commute into the city. The situation for which the system was designed.  It takes me 20 minutes to drive, at least 3 times that long by Metro. 

I was stubbornly, Pat-ish-ly carless till well into adulthood - I didn't learn to drive till i was in my 30s.  I lived in some places where only a Patlike fanatic would go without a car.  But I am old now.  I only have so many minutes left of my life - I can't waste 80 of them per day to take Metro instead of the car. That's 80 of them assuming all goes well.  Given that Metro has only the vaguest idea of how to run a subway, that's a rash assumption.

And don't get me started on bicycles. In my ignorant youth I actually commuted by bike down Mass Ave in Cambridge into Boston.  I now realize that this only seemed reasonable because of my youthful assumption that I was immortal. The people who commute by bike around here are either insane or suicidal, or both.  It takes all my willpower not to stop the car and get out and yell at them.

ARGH.  OK, Wom-pat will stop thinking about this subject NOW.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2006, 09:18:28 pm »
I really appreciate how Vancouver actually has made it a city mandate to make pedestrian traffic its top priority. They have actually been reducing capacity on some downtown streets. Then again, it is basically a city that is at least half-full of Pats (or full of half-Pats). That kind of gets annoying when the organic and wheat-free forces get too strong, but the car traffic is noticeably less hostile than Toronto's (which is apparently way more pedestrian-friendly than a lot of US cities already).
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« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2006, 09:32:22 pm »
Toronto!  Toronto was the loveliest place to live without a car.  OK, so I lived like an eight block walk from work. Maybe my memories are a bit rose-colored.  OK, yeah, there was one street where the right word for the traffic was 'hostile.'  But the public transit was so lovely.  Oh, except for the strike, I guess...  OK, time to stop thinking about this one too.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2006, 10:13:35 pm »
Man, I kind of hate public transportation.  The bus makes me want to put a bullet in my mouth, I haven't set foot on one since I started driving.

When I have to go into the city, I usually drive to the subway.  The subway is alright, it looks spooky and has musicians playing sometimes.  Some stations have interesting kinds of art, little bronze sculptures, mosaics.  Years ago it used to be serious hoboland, but Rudy Guiliani gassed them all.  Plus, if the undercover police don't see you, you can drink a flask on the trains without getting a summons.

It's pretty slow at night, but it's always an adventure.  You know, actually, sometimes taking the subway is incredibly surreal.  Sometimes you see some pretty weird shit.  And if you're alone, at the end of the trip you realize that there is basically no way to discern whether the things you've seen were real or hallucinations.  Like for instance, one time I saw this huge dude, probably mildly schizophrenic, wandering around the platform, singing to himself, staring people in the eyes, and no one was reacting to him.  Probably because he was extremely spooky and intimidating, but the ride was done, there was no way to ever tell whether or not he actually existed.

It was a pretty long wait for a train - probably 2AM or so, always slow at that time - and he came up to me exposing his lazy eye and  he pointed towards the tunnel.  "I heard dey started a fire on da tracks.  Das'stupid 'cause if you do that shit, you know ya gonna get caught."  And then he paced away to go stare at some other people.

If you are accompanied by other people, they're always like, "Yeah, I saw that too," and just totally shit all over your fun.  Subway adventures are always much better ridin' dolo.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2006, 10:26:05 pm »
"Subway Adventures" sounds like the title to some seedy back alley Tiajuana bible produced in the 40's.

...I'm just sayin' is all.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2006, 03:49:51 am »
ok, there is too much Pat in this thread.
I have something to cheer you all up.
only a little bit too late for the Mustache Olympics

this beautiful piece of work.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #23 on: May 09, 2006, 03:53:33 am »
Is that from a Degrassi outtake reel or something?
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« Reply #24 on: May 09, 2006, 08:30:27 am »
I was going to make some snide comment about the last one looking like gay mario but it looks like they're playing with ds's so I guess that IS what he's meant to be.
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #26 on: May 11, 2006, 12:16:07 pm »
Little Nephew is sounding more and more like that Kornfeld dude from The Onion with every update.
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« Reply #27 on: May 11, 2006, 12:32:55 pm »
It's quite a shock to go from reading Little Nephew's blog to that of Mr. Bear, and to realise that they are written by the same fellow.

Damn, I love that Lyle "aint' even got a fn computer," but nevertheless purchased an iPod.
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« Reply #28 on: May 11, 2006, 12:35:17 pm »
I'm not sure I want to click on 'Little Nephew lays it bare.' 

Can we look forward to Wacky Hijinks from Mr Bear's new pub?
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Re: May Blogs - A Thread
« Reply #29 on: May 11, 2006, 01:02:36 pm »
My favorite here is the fact that Lyle's update is simply titled "Lyle" in the link on the mainpage.

With Lyle, there needs no extrapolation for he is Lyle.  Lyle!


Also: "angling at the Crab and Pickle" sounds far more salacious than it should I suspect.

Further Also: "Much grot tha booty on"  Serious.
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