The "stigma" placed upon mass transit in Michigan is very much unique to that area... I'm still not quite able to wrap my mind around mass transit being a commonplace, not-dangerous, not-poor-only idea that everyone uses... maybe one day I will.
The mass transit is so good here that I will decide at a moment's notice to take a different route, because the one I am using is taking too long. Bus didn't come? Walk to the train! Train doesn't come? Try a bus! Bus/train for the Orange Line isn't working? Take train/bus on the Red Line! Trading buses is the easiest thing in the world, if you know where both of them go.
Sixty bucks a month, and I can go anywhere in the city I want. Not that I have been to the south ends of the train line, but I've pretty much been everywhere else. It takes some getting used to, but I wouldn't trade it for a car commute again.
Of course, there's the off day that I am waiting for a bus in the rain with too much stuff than I should logically be carrying...but that's what calling up a friend to invite them to dinner in Davis is for. I get the dinner reservation, they drive me home.
You're in Boston? Awesome!! I'm there, like, all the time. (I guess I just missed you this summer, since I was there in July.) I'll let you know the next time I'll be there! Enjoy living in the best city ever!
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Glad you're having fun CJ!
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Sixty bucks a month, and I can go anywhere in the city I want. Not that I have been to the south ends of the train line, but I've pretty much been everywhere else. It takes some getting used to, but I wouldn't trade it for a car commute again.
Of course, there's the off day that I am waiting for a bus in the rain with too much stuff than I should logically be carrying...but that's what calling up a friend to invite them to dinner in Davis is for. I get the dinner reservation, they drive me home.
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