Who rides the bus? I do! I do!
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kickahaWell, due to an amazing bit of stupidity on my part, I don't have a parking permit for campus for next year. (Done missed the signup deadline, I did.)
So, I'm looking into alternate forms of transportation. Like the bus. Yay.
Unfortunately, the Triangle area of NC doesn't exactly have what I'd call 'mass transportation'. They try. They really, really do. They try everything, a little bit here, a little bit there, and nothing cohesive or organized into a whole.
After searching online for the various bus systems' schedules and routes, however, I found that I can grab a bus in Raleigh near NC State campus, and end up on UNC campus in Chapel Hill about 75 minutes later. It's a 45 minute drive, and I have to walk across campus from my current parking spot for about 15 minutes anyway, so it's not *horrendously* long. Besides, now I can read while I commute... haven't been able to have that luxury since using the Metro in Seattle. (*sigh* Now that's a bus system... second only to perhaps NY subways in terms of getting people from here to there pretty darned efficiently. To those of you living there thinking I'm nuts, move elsewhere. Anywhere. Then move back, and appreciate that while Metro ain't perfect, it's really rather nice in comparison to just about everything else out there. I'd *kill* to have a Metro system here.)
So this will be interesting... I'll feel like an honest to god student again. :)
So, I'm looking into alternate forms of transportation. Like the bus. Yay.
Unfortunately, the Triangle area of NC doesn't exactly have what I'd call 'mass transportation'. They try. They really, really do. They try everything, a little bit here, a little bit there, and nothing cohesive or organized into a whole.
After searching online for the various bus systems' schedules and routes, however, I found that I can grab a bus in Raleigh near NC State campus, and end up on UNC campus in Chapel Hill about 75 minutes later. It's a 45 minute drive, and I have to walk across campus from my current parking spot for about 15 minutes anyway, so it's not *horrendously* long. Besides, now I can read while I commute... haven't been able to have that luxury since using the Metro in Seattle. (*sigh* Now that's a bus system... second only to perhaps NY subways in terms of getting people from here to there pretty darned efficiently. To those of you living there thinking I'm nuts, move elsewhere. Anywhere. Then move back, and appreciate that while Metro ain't perfect, it's really rather nice in comparison to just about everything else out there. I'd *kill* to have a Metro system here.)
So this will be interesting... I'll feel like an honest to god student again. :)
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Re: Metro's fine, as far as I can tell.
Date: 2002-07-23 09:44 am (UTC)Chicago's El system is also pretty good. Although, being spoiled by Metro, I was most disturbed when I discovered you can't call them and ask "What trains/busses do I take to get from here to there by this time?". The lady I spoke to was very nice about it, but explained that she didn't normally try this, so she wasn't sure that she was giving me correct information.