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She seems very attached to normal human being life.
I’ll bet in the million times she’s gone to Disney she hasn’t ridden the Fkn monorail either.
So she's a travel columnist and she doesn't do the thing the people do where she travels?
I hate the gatekeeping and elitist thing of "You don't truly like X if you only do popular thing", but she's really tempting me to do that with travel.
Honestly I don't think cruises and disneyland qualify you to be "well traveled" in any sense of the word other than "has technically been to many places" and even that's only from the cruises.
traveling to different disney resorts is like traveling to a bunch of airports
You spend over 25% of the year traveling... And you've never gone somewhere with lots of public transit? Ok not NYC which is one of few transit systems in the US that's worth anything... But what never big cities in... Europe? Asia? Atleast to pass through em for a few days if most of your travel is rural (which I doubt).
Just going to Tokyo and only taking the taxi.
Or what she just goes to LA like 20 times a year?
Or what she just goes to LA like 20 times a year?
No she mostly just goes to Disneyland in Florida.
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Madness. I mean I get it on one tiny level... There are things I like doing more often than the average amount... But Disney... Really. You wanna be a child that bad?
Also ya totally makes you a big time travel head to go to the same theme park for the same managed experience every time.
Goes to Disneyland 35 days a year, complains about having to take public transit. Checks out
tbf the nyc subway is extremely convoluted and unintuitive to use compared to more civilized metros, lots of arcane rules like "only the first 3 cars can fit in this station so if you want to get off there you better remember where in the train you are" or "trains with prime numbers only stop at every other station during rush hour" which are never posted anywhere. It's like the least beginner-friendly metro of any on earth, even ones where the beginner doesn't speak the local language.
that said it's still not that hard, you buy a ticket, you try to get on the right train, and worst-case you end up 20 blocks away from your destination and try again
every western transit designer should be required by law to visit one or more major east asia cities to see how they do it. I've been a few places in taiwan, RoK, japan and even as a non-local language speaker the transit was super easy to use. lots of colour coding on paths to guide you around and signage was really good too. this was 10+ years ago now but these cities definitely set the bar to me. I'm curious what modern transit looks like in mainland china, I've never been.
“only the first 3 cars can fit in this station so if you want to get off there you better remember where in the train you are”
Not once in the 40 years I lived in NYC has this happened to me.
This is much more common on the LIRR or NJ Transit than the subway. Certain stations only allow the first 10 cars, last four cars, etc
maybe it was construction-related, if the intercom worked I might've been able to hear what the conductor was trying to say about it instead of a garbled static version of the teacher's voice in charlie brown
The old South Ferry station used to be like this, otherwise I can't remember of any others.
"trains with prime numbers only stop at every other station during rush hour"
Shirley you can't be serious?
Memories of trying to catch the Z train for funsies and then learning it only has 6 trips every day
I caught it once and jumped on just to see the Z
It's not nearly as bad as this but yes NYC has this concept of "express" trains that skip stations during rush hours even when it's the same train line, and it can be very confusing even if you've taken any other metro on earth.
transit apps have trivialized all of this
you don't even need a Metrocard anymore!
Any system designed for the general population that's so complicated you need an app navigate it is a bad system.
It's understandable to be confused by the strange commercialized transit scheme in New York. Probably not as understandable to be an adult and not know how to read a map but that's the education system's failure, not a moral failure.
Are there at least websites that help say, someone who hasn't taken public transportation how to navigate it?
Never been to NYC but here in LA, with a pretty simple light rail/subway network, Metro has an army of "ambassadors" at most stations to help riders get to where they're going.
I remember when I first left Florida I had no idea how to use transit either. I had to look it up and spent hours trying to figure it out. after doing so however, I know for sure it's a genuine goal of mine to see how long I can make it without owning a car even if I end up back in Florida just out of spite
