http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2006/06/16/wine-jazz-and-proletarian-transit/ Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road Tue, 17 May 2011 06:04:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2006/06/16/wine-jazz-and-proletarian-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-113 Joel B. Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:41:35 +0000 http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2006/06/16/wine-jazz-and-proletarian-transit/#comment-113 Why does the middle class tend to avoid buses? I think it’s because in terms of reliability the bus is the worst. It’s pretty much not reliable. You can wait for 15 minutes and never know when the bus is supposed to come. Trains, have a pretty specific timetable, which allows me to plan ahead, and when it’s late, I can blame the train…”the train ran late.” If I take the bus…how do I even know when I’m going to get there. Also, if I wanted to sit in traffic with everyone else, I could very well do that by driving, but on the bus I get home much slower, lastly you can’t do anything on the bus. Now, this probabl isn’t true for everyone, but I can’t read or really sleep on a bus it makes me queasy. My impression is that most people get car or “bus” sick much quicker than they get train sick.

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