The New Orleans bus system is pretty much designed to be as hard to figure out as possible. The bus stop signs all just say "Bus Stop" and have no indication as to what lines stop there or where they go. I've been here for four years, and I only know where three of the lines actually go. (It doesn't really help that, at college orientation, we're told, "The buses are dangerous. Don't take them," so it took me until the middle of sophomore year before I even tried.)
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Hil R. - Apr 14, 2003 9:18:57 am PDT #3518 of 9843
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Kate P. - Apr 14, 2003 9:21:44 am PDT #3519 of 9843
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Angus, I never saw any at any of the tram stops, which is where one might reasonably expect to find them (except for the fact that most tram stops don't have shelters, so maps would get rained on and ruined pretty quick). They may be available elsewhere, but I wouldn't know where to look. Some of the tram stops did have little maps for their individual lines behind fogged-up glass, but stops that are used by several lines don't have maps of every line.
It's also possible that I just didn't try very hard to find a map. Because it should be easy, dammit! :-)
meara - Apr 14, 2003 9:22:24 am PDT #3520 of 9843
Because Australia is too sodding long to type!
Yes!
The Sydney one does look a little confusing, but it also looks liek it has a LOT of stops, which is neat. DC's is easy, but only becuase there aren't so many stops...
Zoe Ann - Apr 14, 2003 9:23:07 am PDT #3521 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
Lothian buses are informationly excellent all the stops are well marked and have little route diagrams.
Jim - Apr 14, 2003 9:23:26 am PDT #3522 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Yeah, but you have a Pentagon stop, which is dead cool.
Zoe Ann - Apr 14, 2003 9:24:47 am PDT #3523 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.
Whats a Pentagon stop?
Jim - Apr 14, 2003 9:25:32 am PDT #3524 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
A stop under the Pentagon in Washington.
evil jimi - Apr 14, 2003 9:27:20 am PDT #3525 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Julie ... what Jim said. I write and say "Oz" frequently but then I have a horrible habit of shortening names.
Plus! I was irreprapblye parabola irreparably damaged by going to the cinema and seeing
Oz*
when I was about 12.
* This was a mid-70s Australian version of the Wizard of Oz.
Madrigal Costello - Apr 14, 2003 9:28:40 am PDT #3526 of 9843
It's a remora, dimwit.
I thought it was also supposed to reflect native pronounciation, since several Australians have corrected me when I've begun the name with the same sound as in Austria.
Holli - Apr 14, 2003 9:28:59 am PDT #3527 of 9843
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
A stop under the Pentagon in Washington.
Of course, we also have things like the stop marked "zoo" actually being farther away from the zoo than the Cleveland Park stop, and an uphill walk besides. On the other hand, taking the zoo stop to ge to the zoo is a mistake you only make once.