Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: The insane progress nobody is talking about Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 20:29:30 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:29:46 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5ac47e4211dc666dec065adebc6ac461"; logging-data="2248537"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+O5SRQFAA6eE4fnTHPYRcd" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ad94MLp2NArKsULs/h7uk6e5M1g= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3323 The Horny Goat wrote: > On 27 Jun 2024 22:06:45 -0000, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: > >>> My case is a clear no go - there's a commuter rail station about a >>> mile away, but the Boston commuter system as designed with the >>> assumption that everyone wanted to go to the city center - my last work >>> place was about 8 miles out, but NW of town, while I live W of town. >> >> Boston and DC both have systems built that way, with no rings at all, and >> it is increasingly limiting their usefulness as fewer and fewer people are >> working in the city center. In the case of Boston the commuter rail is >> actually a lot better than the subway, but the subway is a major problem. >> In the case of DC there is talk about adding some rings in the future >> and there is a good chance of the purple line happening but it's really >> too little and too late. >> --scott > > So does Vancouver - I had to go to the pharmacy yesterday (I'm > temporarily unable to drive due to recent eye surgery) and had to bus > it and had to take 2 buses - both of which eventually went or had come > from downtown simply to go what is generally a 10-15 minute drive for > me. Given the outside temperature (high 80s / low 90s) I was not > amused at having a 15-20 minute wait at my transfer point (which was > far away from the straight line path from home to pharmacy) > > It was unnecessarily getting up from the bus stop and walking around > constantly simply to get some air flow.... I was preemptively getting ready to vent some ire at the Toronto Transit commission today, but the scheming rascals preempted my preemption by giving me a smooth and timely trip. Some people! But yes, bus-to-bus transfers are always a heart attack waiting to happen. Still, by law I have to complain about something, so I will. All bus stops need benches. If we stopped renaming things to appease the ill-informed we could use the money for that. William Hyde