Posts Tagged ‘metrotransit’
complete bedlam »
Saturday, July 17th, 2010
Minneapolis: are you kidding?
It’s the best recreational bicycle city but it’s mediocre for commuters. The mass transit needs vast improvement and outside of the dense center (downtown, uptown), biking with drivers is dangerous.
The light rail should be an icon of a shift to shared transit and green commutes. It’s a symbol of shared mobility and clean travel. (more…)
lost then found, a bit late »
Friday, May 29th, 2009
Yesterday, you all know, was gorgeous. I spent the majority of it inside (which is my custom) and then ventured out about 2p. It was a big step but barely necessary.
Avid readers (there are, literally, threes of them) will remember my post-Halloween misplacement of my ID (if not, read up). Turns out it showed up on a MetroTransit entity and was turned into their lost and found.
I took the 4 through downtown, listening to a guy and girl compete for who was the dimmer bulb of the two. One was illiterate, the other didn’t know where they were. I only mention this to remind all of you, romance is not dead. (But our species may be.)
After disembarking, I wandered over to the L&F past the in-construction Twins, Target Stadium. Things are moving along nicely, in the humble opinion of someone with no idea. (Some snaps are in the usual place.)
The L&F was an impressive affair. I had to press a button, speak through an intercom and wait for forms and my ID to arrive via steel drawer. I admit, I was taken aback. (Not that I was expecting someone in heavy-rimmed glasses to dig into a worn cardboard box, but still.)
On the walk back downtown and the subsequent ride on the 6, I thought, how did it take so long for the ID to show up behind the intercom? If you do the math (and I didn’t), that’s 203 days, 29 weeks or 6 months and 22days. There are so many possibles for it taking that long…
- Some mastermind used it to create dozens, if not millions, of low-price IDs for idiot freshman.
- It was taped to the wall of a bus, asking for redemption, so long everyone forgot about it.
- An idiot freshman picked it up and used it for a few months before dropping it because he’s an idiot freshman.
- Someone with a similar haircut, thus looking exactly like me, used it until he came of age and didn’t need it anymore, discarding it anonymously on LRT.
- … that or it was used for unknown, unsavory activity by any number of shady characters in a long line of untoward individuals before landing in maximum security holding off of 6th Av N.