For the sake of peace of mind, this will be a short post. This topic could easily turn into a 50 page rant so please don't get me started! Well, too late.
It took nearly 2 hours to reach my AP Calculus training course this morning, thanks to 3 buses and none of them taking a direct route from suburb-to-suburb. Reminded me of living in the boonies of Shanghai and going downtown on the 'chicken bus' all over again, but who would have thought that such transit convolution could occur in Vancouver also. Actually, I'm hardly surprised. The freeway takes a direct route yet no buses run on it.
It's really a sad fact of life in the West that cars and cell phones are luxuries which have become dependencies. I'm no environmentalist or socialist by any means, yet I would still go off on a scathing rant against this reality just like they would. It's primarily because we have made choices become that which we don't have any choice over, and have also made choices to become captive to our own freedom.
It took nearly 2 hours to reach my AP Calculus training course this morning, thanks to 3 buses and none of them taking a direct route from suburb-to-suburb. Reminded me of living in the boonies of Shanghai and going downtown on the 'chicken bus' all over again, but who would have thought that such transit convolution could occur in Vancouver also. Actually, I'm hardly surprised. The freeway takes a direct route yet no buses run on it.
It's really a sad fact of life in the West that cars and cell phones are luxuries which have become dependencies. I'm no environmentalist or socialist by any means, yet I would still go off on a scathing rant against this reality just like they would. It's primarily because we have made choices become that which we don't have any choice over, and have also made choices to become captive to our own freedom.
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