Chicagoist: "Hey, Neat - A Well-Run Transit System!"

mikely1

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:52:06 -0600

Madrid 2016

smallerdemon

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:35:30 -0600

Hey, you guys can come visit us in San Francisco and see the NextBus signs predict the next bus that isn't coming. That is, in fact, one of the few things in our system that isn't antiquated. You should see our vintage 80s subway turnstiles (not that you have to hop a turnstile, mind you, since the "security" gates are just at waist height) and our advanced system of selling monthly passes at grocery stores and tobacco shops. Hey, but you get a transfer for FREE if you pay the $1.50 fare. Make sure you have correct change in the subway, and I mean quarters or dollar coins. Sure, the buses and trains themselves take bills, but you expect the turnstiles in the subways to take bills? Wait?! You can use MONEY in the turnstiles instead of those complicated yet significantly more secure and efficient fare cards? Everybody loves cash money on the turnstiles! Especially a turnstile full of quarters and dollar coins and the coin slot has a steel plate over it.

matty

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:35:00 -0600

i fucking love that graphic. hahahahah

ednamode

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:15:28 -0600

I don't think we even need to get all taxy about it. How about we all just write the city a damn check? I'll pony up $50. Take it. Just make the friggin thing better already.

ophmarketing

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:42:54 -0600

Hell, I'd be happy if we could somehow manage those "next train arriving in x minutes" signs that every other city in the world seems to have figured out in the 1980s.

HeaveMediaLisa

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:54:59 -0600

Unicorns you say? Maybe the Chinese caught onto to this and agreed: http://tenreasonsitwouldruletodateaunicorn.com/

Albanyparkour

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:53:05 -0600

There was an old saying that under Soviet rule you could walk through Red Square waving hundred dollar bills and never worry about crime. China's a totalitarian society. Of course they get the trains to run on time.