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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Well I have ridden a bus in LA and it seemed reasonably full. But being there as a tourist (6 times), the people I asked about buses were hotel people and tour type people etc. and they all said no one uses the bus or some variant thereof. Just as they said 2 or 3 blocks was too far to walk and I managed to make it without expiring from exertion or sinking into the ground as there were no sidewalks.
Same in Phoenix, Orlando and small cities/towns in Oregon. I was in Johnston city Tennessee and had to get a taxi to cross the street which was more or less like a freeway  Never saw a bus there although I am sure they exist.
Helen |
There's a reason that you won't find buses full of people in Phoenix; a bus here in mid-July is like Dante's Inferno on Wheels, every possible pun intended. Not to mention, the dreaded bus stops. There's almost nothing here for mass transit; it's all cars, cars cars, and air-conditioned ones, at that. No rolling around with the top down in summer for us. And it's nearly impossible to get anywhere in any reasonably timely fashion. It's far, far easier to get around in NY, including the boroughs and LI, than it is to remotely get to/from work in Phoenix, Arizona, without a bloody car. I feel a lot of sympathy for the workers I see trying to get around on buses and the one rail system we now have (all in downtown, of course. Utter bolloxing waste of money).
Hitch