My post last week of an itinerary for getting from San Francisco to Los Angeles on public transit is generating a lot of buzz in the blogosphere. There have been many interesting comments on that story, but this was my favorite from Leslie B.:
The point is that you can now make this trip solely using publicly funded transportation. (!!!)
In addition to being excited about this route, you might be a transit geek if you:
- have or have at least considered riding every bus route in your town just for the experience.
- find it fun to analyze or recreate entire systems of bus routes and schedules and blocks.
- have entire bus systems memorized and can’t help but offer transit-route alternatives when people bring up their non-transit commute.
- follow transit-related current events.
- have considered learning computer programing just so you can create new and improved transit route suggestion applications.
- (lastly) have an actual or mental catalog of all of the transit map and schedule designs you’ve ever seen so that one day, when its your job to make new marketing/informational materials to support a transit system, you will have the most legible design.
That is at least a fairly comprehensive list of the reasons why I am a transit geek.
This is why I am a transit geek as well, Leslie! Thanks for sharing.
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1. being excited about this route
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2. have or have at least considered riding every bus route in your town just for the experience.
I’ve done 3/4 of the Muni system, and when day passes were available have joyridden AC Transit, Santa Cruz Transit and Monterey-Salinas Transit.
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