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Busrant

Forgive me a rant, if you will:

I hate everything about travelling by bus. Waiting for it, sitting in it, stopping every 100 feet for someone else to get on, waiting in traffic in it, freezing my extremities in it, paying for it. It is a waste of life to travel by metro bus here. You have to go by their schedule, hoping during which time the bus is neither early nor late. The LAST bus to leave the university to Tecoma is 1810 on weekdays and there's no service at all on Sundays. Aaaaugh!!

Today, I elected to be environmentally sound and travelled a 30 minute car trip by bus from Andy's house in Tecoma. I got on the bus at 0723; I've just arrived at the university and its 0840. It cost me $8.20. That's about 30 km, probably 112 km following the bus route. Aughh! I ran into my officemate coming up the stairs and he said you could read some journal papers in that time; I said that you could research for and write one. All you'd need would be a couple of seats in the back to set up the experimental gear. By the time you got to the university, the data would be analysed and you'd be revising the first draft.

I now fully understand the convenience of The Car. Environmental considerations aside: Hail, Lord! The personal automobile. Public bus transportation in metropolitan Melbourne is hideous. Utterly frustratingly ridiculous. Aaaaaugh!

Thanks!

posted by Kyle @ 16:46