Ten days ago or thereabouts, I wrote a prequel to this post, Training It. In it, I suggested that folks like me yours truly (because I don’t know the proper I/me grammar with that), North Americans raised with little hands-on exposure to the wider world around them, couldn’t fully appreciate an optimally functioning transit system.
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For anyone’s who’s grown up in North America, I don’t think we understand the appeal of proper train travel. Convenient, regular, extensive, nearly-always-ontime train travel. It’s an exotic notion to us, riding the rails. Something from a distant time or done in distant lands.
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So,
I’m sitting around, minding my own business, scrolling through the afternoon news feeds when I startle across this headline:
John Tory says he hasn’t ruled out another run for mayor
And I’m like,
are you fucking kidding me with that?! Continue reading