Well it would seem that even if almost nobody reads my blog, (unless I use the word vagina someplace) apparently someone does. I had a small rant in my post vacation blog about how superior I found the public transportation in Vancouver to Pittsburgh, it was, like our system, card based. But everything falls under one fare, the subway, buses and seabus, where as here if you go too far you have to pay more for crossing an arbitrary border, there are different fees for the subway depending on when you ride, the subway doesn't go anywhere near the airport unlike Vancouver where you can take the subway and be downtown in 20 minutes. Another neat feature was that at the bus stops they had the arrival times of each bus posted right at the stops.
So excuse me if I take credit for the events that are taking place at the Port Authority these days, (last I checked you didn't blog about how inferior our transit system was) but we are transitioning to a one fare system, mostly card based (cash payers will pay an extra .25 per ride) which if it keeps one person from getting on the bus in front of me and then fumbling around in their purse for correct hange, then I can live with this change as well. Also popping up dowtown were bus stops with arrival times (and maps which Vancouver does not have).
Who knows, maybe in another 50 or 100 years we will have the subway going all the way to the airport as well. Or maybe sooner now that I mentioned in in my blog.
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