Subj : Re: 3.5 weeks to being la
To   : Capt Kirk
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Aug 11 2022 07:54:00

-=> Capt Kirk wrote to boraxman <=-

 CK> the U.S. is designed around the automobile, where Europe is designed
 CK> around public transport..   if the transit system was at least 200%
 CK> better here, and easier to take i'd opt for that..

I went to school and spent the next 10 years in San Francisco, and I could 
have done it very nicely without a car. In SF you could get anywhere you 
needed to go 24/7, they have a nice prime-time metro/trolley system, a 
region-wide elevated train system, and a traditional train route that runs 
down the peninsula into Silicon Valley.

The bus system had a monthly pass that let you get onto any of the rail/bus 
systems within city limits.

Want to go across the bay? There's ferry service, which is a beautiful way 
to travel. You'd get a bus transfer for one ride each way.

Drinking with friends usually involved picking one of the trolley lines and 
visiting a couple of bars along the route. I, fortuitously, lived at the end 
of one of the lines, right along the beach.

I used my car mostly for grocery shopping and dating. And accumulating 
street-cleaning tickets.


.... Back in the stream that feeds the ocean that feeds the stream.
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