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⌈ Secret Post #3109 ⌋

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My sis and I have never used public transportation.

Never? Ever? Not even a bus?
:| what are you.

I've never been to NYC or DC so I'm just going to spam you with some general tips that apply to just about any city with a tourism economy and public transport system.

If they're anything like oyster or opal cards, it might work out cheaper to buy the 7 day one. I find that when I'm in a new city I get ideas for what I want to do when I'm already out the door and it's nice not to worry about topping up. If you know where you'll be going you can check if their system is zoned (meaning you can travel from A to B for $4 but if you're going from A to C which is only the next station, it's going to suddenly be $15) and if express trains or peak hour trains cost more and see how much you're likely to spend.

If you'll be doing multiple trips a day, it adds up pretty fast!

The hop on - hop off tour buses are annoying to sit on sometimes, but if you're looking to do all the major tourist attractions and not get a 7 day pass for the train, you could have a day of sightseeing with transport that takes you directly to the monuments and parks for fairly cheap if you get an all day pass. That way you can spend as much time as you like at certain spots and jump on another bus, or just stay on and keep going past stuff you're not interested in. The buses usually run pretty often during the day and they're fairly tourist-proof because the guides and drivers are paid to be helpful to you.

When I'm in a city I haven't been to before I book my first day on the bus and get familiar with the area and get any stupid questions out of the way with people who are nice and friendly. I don't have to listen to the touristy information if I want to put my headphones in and tune out and I'm not panicked about getting lost. I think my London pass cost me about $25 in my own currency because my hotel desk was great at getting discount stuff and it included walking tours and a ferry pass, plus a book of discount coupons for all the paid attractions. To see everything I saw using the tube would have cost me much more than that and involved a lot more walking and probably standing with my face in the armpits of strangers during peak hour. Ugh.

If I'm travelling with my best friend though, she considers herself above such touristy things and would rather stress and get lost and yell at me for not having memorised maps or magically known where to get good food or nice clothes. By the end of our Europe trip she got on a bus the first day in Spain without a single word of complaint.

Most places in America don't really have functional, widely-used public transit. It's quite rare. Outside of New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, the SF Bay Area, Portland... I'm forgetting more than a few I'm sure, but once you're outside of the big cities it's really just not common. For a lot of economic, historical, political, public policy, geographic, and cultural reasons.

Wow, okay. I knew that the population distribution was different to here (where nobody wants to live in the middle because desert), but we have local bus companies that are contracted to cover our public routes even if we're not allocated city buses, and a regional link to the main train network that's over an hour away.

Tbh we only have a train line because we are a coal town and the city wanted our coal. Otherwise they wouldn't have hooked us up at all and we'd be like Canberra.

Well, I'm probably exaggerating somewhat - it's worth pointing out that bus lines are significantly more common. They just tend to mostly suck, for a lot of reasons. And on a regional (rather than a municipal) scale, it trends towards nonexistent.

Yeah. The buses aren't exactly amazing. Our town's bus route had two stops and was only ever serviced by two bus drivers: Barry and Hitler.
They were also the same company contracted by the school service to do the north bus. So our school bus drivers were also Barry and Hitler.

da

wait, one of your bus drivers was literally named Hitler or was that just a nickname?

Well it was a nickname, but he had a very neat moustache and a very shitty personality:

We didn't have separate buses for the disabled and my friend used walking aids and he told her if she couldn't get up the stairs without help she couldn't ride the bus.

If anyone lost a bus pass (even before swipe cards) he wouldn't let them on even though he knew where they lived and they had no other way of getting there/home.

We didn't have a bus shelter so if it was pissing down rain (tropical summer storms) we'd stand under the fruit shop roof (clearly visible from the road) but if we weren't on the footpath when he was at the top of the hill, he'd rev the bus and drive past us. If we chased it, he'd honk to tell us "yes I see you and I don't give a shit". We'd have to walk to the train station and buy tickets or get on illegally ($200 fine) to get to school.

I could go on. That fucker was the worst. He was a nasty racist too, and he made lots of comments about different kids who had to take the bus.

To this day I still flip him off if I see him driving around.

Wow, what an asshole. I don't understand what would drive someone to be like towards anyone much less a bunch of kids.

No idea. I hope someone gets him doing shit like this on a camera phone and it goes viral.

Barry was the complete opposite. He used to give people free rides if they were going to friend's houses or if it was raining and they lived in the exclusion zone for free passes. If I see him around town I always give him a wave. Top bloke.

ewwwwww. I hope he gets fired.

Me too. We reported him to the school but I don't think they did anything about that, or the P.E. teacher who used to walk into the girl's change room to "hurry us along". Fuck that place.

ugh ugh ugh

I had a creepy PE/health teacher in middle school but not THAT creepy

how is that acceptable in any stretch of the imagination

Nah, you're not really exaggerating. I live in Indianapolis which, while not nearly as big as the places you listed above, is still a substantial city, and public transit sucks ass here. I think I've ridden the bus maybe twice? The town I went to college in actually had a better bus system but I only used that because it was convenient to campus and free for students.

Seriously, public transit in the US is awful. It's kinda sad. :/

I've never used public transportation either tbh. I live in Texas and my town literally has no public transportation (the larger cities around me do, but that doesn't help me much). Almost everyone I know has a car because they wouldn't be able to get around well otherwise

You are missing out. How can you appreciate life unless you've accidentally sat in the still-damp urine of another human being!?

Yeah, cars are still pretty essential here. The train and the bus will get you from town to town, but only in a straight line. If we're talking land area that isn't covered by public transport in my state, it would be close to... all of it.

For scale:
NSW (my state!): 809,444 km²
Texas: 696,241 km²

Nope! I've only lived in two towns and both were really small. The closest they had to public transportation was like one taxi service.

Thank you for the advice though. Neither my sister nor I have done much traveling and especially not to big cities!

Be prepared to hate your life on the train. People tend to use them as beds/toilets/places to make out. They get too comfortable there. Just try not to make eye contact and ignore the fuck out everyone and you'll fit right in!

You're going to have so much fun! I did a fair bit of domestic travel in high school because I had friends to stay with and bands to see, and it's definitely the good kind of scary. Being in a new city is always exciting and kind of liberating. It's pretty much the feeling of going to a different McDonalds as a kid and discovering their playground is bigger.

tripadvisor.com has reviews of attractions, hotels, restaurants etc. and there are a few other websites like that too that have personal reviews. When I let a tour group book my hotel once I ended up not having a working shower and there was a support column in the middle of my room. I had to walk around it to get to to the door, bed, and bathroom. It was like a tiny human roundabout of evil.

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