This week, I was ambitious and commuted to work twice using the Twin Cities metro area’s lovely mass transit system. The good news is that I’ve settled on a route. The bad news is that the route will take an hour, and is about as good as it gets from the options I’ve explored so [...]
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Two-fer Thursday “Commuter Challenge”
Posted in Transit, tagged bus, commuting, guns, MetroTransit, train cop, twin cities on 4 October 2007 | 2 Comments »
Nick & Molly’s “Commuter Challenge” Thursdays
Posted in Transit, tagged bus, commuter challenge, commuting, MetroTransit, train, Transit on 24 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
Inspired by our trip to Montreal earlier this month — where we could hop on the subway at any location and generally get where we wanted to go without too much planning — my partner Molly and I “Bring home the adventure” by leaving our cars home one workday a week.
Trains vs. Planes in 21st Century America
Posted in Transit on 11 September 2007 | 1 Comment »
Flying in 21st Century America hasn’t exactly been pleasant. What used to be a fairly easy going process before 2001 is now plagued by long security lines jammed up with the forced removal of footwear, theatrical requirements for carrying liquid toiletries, the triple review of IDs and boarding passes and random searches of luggage.
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