Friday, September 17, 2004
Transportation
I spent this week on course in Halifax, and to get there I used three modes of transportation each day. Car, bus and ferry. Here are my observations.
Car: Traveling with a friend (MouseGuy), we drove to a terminal so that we would have a choice of several buses to take to get downtown. What a difference five minutes makes. If you leave at the right time, traffic is fairly light and uneventful. Five minutes difference means you are driving among the cowboys/cowgirls that are jockeying for position and they don't give a hoot about anyone else, they just go without looking. This is the majority not the minority. (That's what I call "Insurance Adjusters" again.)
Bus: All the drivers we encountered were very polite to their passengers, and their driving was smooth and considerate. But what a detriment those low floor buses are to the general traveling public. Even with the lightest load, the majority are standing, and the seated ones have to endure a side ways seat which just isn't easy on body parts. Understanding the need for accessible transit, there has to be a better way. Our current laws don't allow for a different configuration. Stange the course I was on was about supervision, and one part of it emphasize that if the rules aren/t correct, get them changed.
Ferry: Even though I had traveled via ferry several times before, doing so four days in a row was great. The morning cruise across our harbour was very refreshing and seemed to be a great introduction to our day. And the afternoon run on the return trip seemed such a pleasant way to wind down. A perfect combination if your travel requirements happend to be close enough to their terminals.
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I spent this week on course in Halifax, and to get there I used three modes of transportation each day. Car, bus and ferry. Here are my observations.
Car: Traveling with a friend (MouseGuy), we drove to a terminal so that we would have a choice of several buses to take to get downtown. What a difference five minutes makes. If you leave at the right time, traffic is fairly light and uneventful. Five minutes difference means you are driving among the cowboys/cowgirls that are jockeying for position and they don't give a hoot about anyone else, they just go without looking. This is the majority not the minority. (That's what I call "Insurance Adjusters" again.)
Bus: All the drivers we encountered were very polite to their passengers, and their driving was smooth and considerate. But what a detriment those low floor buses are to the general traveling public. Even with the lightest load, the majority are standing, and the seated ones have to endure a side ways seat which just isn't easy on body parts. Understanding the need for accessible transit, there has to be a better way. Our current laws don't allow for a different configuration. Stange the course I was on was about supervision, and one part of it emphasize that if the rules aren/t correct, get them changed.
Ferry: Even though I had traveled via ferry several times before, doing so four days in a row was great. The morning cruise across our harbour was very refreshing and seemed to be a great introduction to our day. And the afternoon run on the return trip seemed such a pleasant way to wind down. A perfect combination if your travel requirements happend to be close enough to their terminals.
This work by NSCAVE is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
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