How many of you ever ridden on one of these? (Washington: transplants, live)
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so, you're a real Washingtonian if you ever rode a bus in Silver Spring Maryland?
Nah just that particular bus. The streets in Dc used to be flooded with em but they got retired in 2000.
These days all we have are these weird looking buses without character.
You're kind of fixated on this whole "real DC" thing, aren't you?
I mean, I'm a native, and I get hating on the transplants. They're super annoying, self-important, and midwestern. But let's not pretend gentrification isn't a net benefit to the city, because it is.
- They had hard plastic, uncomfortable seats and backs. (Not sure if this is because people had vandalized the earlier cushioned seats ?)
- Often the windows were stuck shut and wouldn't open on 100-degree days = 120 degrees inside the bus
- If it was full and you had to sit in the very back, then the engine under you made a constant deafening roar, especially when accelerating
- Long, articulated busses - traveled very slow, due to the extra weight the engine had to haul
- Wish our system worked like they have in the progressive city of Curitiba, Brazil: passengers there pre-pay at a special platform with turnstiles, BEFORE they board the bus, which saves a lot of time. Then they speed along in dedicated lanes.
I think I did. I remember riding the X-2 buses that were somewhat similar, this was around 1999/2000. With the rubber thing near the end of it, kinda made it look like an accordion.
You're kind of fixated on this whole "real DC" thing, aren't you?
I mean, I'm a native, and I get hating on the transplants. They're super annoying, self-important, and midwestern. But let's not pretend gentrification isn't a net benefit to the city, because it is.
You're kind of fixated on this whole "real DC" thing, aren't you?
I mean, I'm a native, and I get hating on the transplants. They're super annoying, self-important, and midwestern. But let's not pretend gentrification isn't a net benefit to the city, because it is.
Real DC is long gone and only ghosts of it still exist. The sooner people accept that and stop trying to "keep it real" the better off everyone (regardless of race or class) is in the city.
I used to ride the streetcars in DC when I was a kid. That's more then fifty years ago since they stopped running. I would catch the AB&W bus (Always Better to Walk) at Columbia Pike and Thomas St. in Arlington where I lived to 14th and Penn downtown. Then hang out on the streets of DC for the rest of the day. Downtown was really funky in those days.
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