Thank you! In reading that, I found myself feeling good about the Tokyo train system! Do keep in mind that standing is pretty much a 365 day a year situation here, but there are nice touches:
1) If you buy a ticket on one train line and they stop the trains and you have to transfer to another line, they give you a ticket for the other line for free.
2) Getting a license here is expensive and much stricter than in the US. That doesn't necessarily make everyone better drivers (although I would say just about everyone here is better at parking!), but - overall - people seem to have a healthy respect for having legal permission to drive and don't generally drive wildly.
Um... that's it I guess. I can feel something else that is out of reach at the moment, but I do know that I got more frustrated with commuting in the US than here (except for the times I've run into racists over here), but I'm not entirely sure why. Hmmm.... Predictability! Aside from conditions being good or bad, if they're predictable, they're easy to deal with?
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Thank you!
Date: 2005-07-13 02:07 pm (UTC)1) If you buy a ticket on one train line and they stop the trains and you have to transfer to another line, they give you a ticket for the other line for free.
2) Getting a license here is expensive and much stricter than in the US. That doesn't necessarily make everyone better drivers (although I would say just about everyone here is better at parking!), but - overall - people seem to have a healthy respect for having legal permission to drive and don't generally drive wildly.
Um... that's it I guess. I can feel something else that is out of reach at the moment, but I do know that I got more frustrated with commuting in the US than here (except for the times I've run into racists over here), but I'm not entirely sure why. Hmmm.... Predictability! Aside from conditions being good or bad, if they're predictable, they're easy to deal with?
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