Being a transit geek in NYC

I am writing this post from a subway train in New York City. Did you know it is possible to have more than one subway line? Wild! And when they connect to each other, you can take trains to a lot more places. Seattle should really give this a try.

I'm here for fun and not for work, and yet so far I have ridden a very old choo choo (a 91-year-old subway train rolled out for a nostalgia ride") and spent two hours in the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. This is apparently what I do for fun.

By the way, the next time someone asks why it takes us so long to build subway lines these days, refer them to information about the working conditions for people building the early New York subway lines. You can build subway lines very quickly if you don't mind killing a bunch of workers and damaging nearby structures.

I'll be back late on Wednesday, so expect the blog to be back to full speed just in time for the holiday break.