Using public transit requires an educational process. The first thing you need to learn is since you do not have your car with you, you are not carrying around all your crap. You have to be selective in what you bring and you quickly learn that less is more.
You have to get used to the process of buying your ticket. You probably will be going to say, “Oh, that is a lot of money to buy all those tickets.” But if you add up the cost of having your car, filling up the tank with gas, much less all the other expenses of driving around, your money goes a lot further when you use public transit.
Taking public transit might mean you have to do a little more walking than you used to. “Exercise.” You stop, you lazy pig.
You have to learn where to walk and where to wait. The first time out, you will probably screw it all up. It takes some serious work for a newbie to figure out how a transit system works. Most of that information is hidden at the transit locations or in personal government building.
Most people I know try to stay out of government buildings. They do have the schedule printed on the sign of most bus stops. Reading a bus or a train schedule is not what you have called easy, exciting or entertaining reading. It is just something you have to do.
In this era of internet communication, you might be able to look at this information up on a web site. As I record this, that web site has been down for the last three weeks. When I called them they do not expect me to be back up for another month. Who cares about informing the public?
“Yeah, any dysfunctional, we cannot stand it.”
The most accurate thing I can say about the web site is it looks like a web site that was designed by somebody who works for the government.
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