I love bus: October 2008

Sunday, October 26, 2008

crank dat cta

just knowing that there are some other people, too,

reacting to CTA in "creative " way of their own.

check this video on Youtube:click

"crank dat CTA"

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Free Live Music at redline Lake stop

I thought about missing the train and waiting for the next one

for the firs time that day.

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova

especially good when you are riding a bus in rain.

click:

Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Lies

a dollar luxury

It was one saturday night and I was waiting for bus 66 on chicago and state.

I feel lonely at the bus stops. Always. The deep lonely feeling that I don't even know it is there, that I hardly have time for or even try to acknowledge, comes to my conscience whenever I am at the bus stop.

So someone like me, standing at the bus stop alone on Saturday night is not a desirable situation to be.

Luckily, this time, I had a luxury of having a musician as my company.

I gave him a dollar and I don't think a buck justifies what his presence and his performance that night at that time did to me.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

let's enjoy it if we can't avoid it: How to enjoy your CTA rides

i hate riding buses and trains.

I hate it so much.

But it is an inevitable part of my life that I have embrace every day.

I used to own a car-it was a red sports car, too- and I drove everywhere. Everywhere. Since I moved to the city of Chicago,

I started taking buses and trains.

What I hate most about riding CTA is the waiting part. I hate waiting at the bus stop or at the train station. I feel helpless, restless and powerless. Another thing I don't like about it is sharing the space. There is no room for privacy. The ear plugs and books are the only means of defining my space but even then, it gets constantly interrupted.

I don't know if anyone else hates riding buses and trains, but

I decided to create this blog where people can share their experiences on the CTA, or/and at the bus/train stops. I hope to share few tips that I discovered to make the trips more bearable or even enjoyable, sometimes.

Please feel free to share your thoughts, stories, pictures, videos, whatever, here. It is the very first blog I have ever created so I feel a little vulnerable here :)