The Joys of Public Transport
So I was going to talk about my experience trying to get a gym membership up here, but I'll save that for later. Instead I'd like to engage in an exhilarating monologue about public transportation here in Montreal. It will make my later posts easier to understand.
As with most metropolitan areas, Montreal has a few options for public transportation. You can also get anywhere by your own car, that is if you don't mind fording traffic for 2 hours to take what would normally be a 5 minute drive.
The Metro, as we discussed before, is Montreal's Subway. It's cheap and can get you most places in the city. It's also full of interesting characters.
Taxis - No Comment
Busses go all over the city and actually run quite often. I haven't taken a bus ride here yet, but one day I think I will.
The Commuter Train -- This thing is amazing. And no, that isn't sarcasm. It's a 2 minute walk from my building to the train stop. Relatively inexpensive and it gets me to where I have to go in a hurry. Only downside is that trains don't run as frequently as Metro cars. Oh well. The clientele, however, are usually business people so you don't get the honor of sharing your seat with some homeless dude.
Now they have passes that you can buy for a month to take certain modes of transportation. A Metro Pass is $61 Canadian (or $8 American if you need me to do the math) and lets you ride the Metro and the busses as much as you want for 30 days. Not a bad deal. I get the train pass which is $78 and lets me ride the choo-choo, metro and busses as much as I want. Not bad as it saves me a sh!tload in gas.
Now that I got that out of the way, I wanted to share some news... One of the guys that works for me was late today because somebody threw themselve on the Metro track, thus resulting in the metro not operating while the clean-up operation was happening. Now this is poor money management. That schmuck paid $2.50 to do that. I'm sure he or she could have found another way to get the job done and saved themselves a couple bucks all at the same time. The other thing is, that just inconveniences everyone else. Not cool. And finally, I know times are tough but there are always good things to look forward to, like hockey season.. Oh wait, nevermind.
One recent news article that I'm sure some of you will enjoy had the following headline: "Rambo Cellucci has overstayed his welcome." -- Ah yes, our goodold friend Paul Cellucci, former Governor of Massachusetts and current US Ambassador to Canada. Well he's not real popular up here which isn't surprising as he wasn't too popular down there either. A quick scan of any Canadian news site will result in a majority of negative article about our buddy Paul. And to top it, most Candadians know his name quite well, though not for good reasons. Now how many Americans know the name of Canadia's Ambassador to the US? HA! Didn't think so. But guess what, I won't tell you cuz I don't have a clue neither.
Well I'm off to get some groceries now. Just need to decide which warzone I want to shop in. But that's another topic in itself.
Live Long and Prosper
As with most metropolitan areas, Montreal has a few options for public transportation. You can also get anywhere by your own car, that is if you don't mind fording traffic for 2 hours to take what would normally be a 5 minute drive.
The Metro, as we discussed before, is Montreal's Subway. It's cheap and can get you most places in the city. It's also full of interesting characters.
Taxis - No Comment
Busses go all over the city and actually run quite often. I haven't taken a bus ride here yet, but one day I think I will.
The Commuter Train -- This thing is amazing. And no, that isn't sarcasm. It's a 2 minute walk from my building to the train stop. Relatively inexpensive and it gets me to where I have to go in a hurry. Only downside is that trains don't run as frequently as Metro cars. Oh well. The clientele, however, are usually business people so you don't get the honor of sharing your seat with some homeless dude.
Now they have passes that you can buy for a month to take certain modes of transportation. A Metro Pass is $61 Canadian (or $8 American if you need me to do the math) and lets you ride the Metro and the busses as much as you want for 30 days. Not a bad deal. I get the train pass which is $78 and lets me ride the choo-choo, metro and busses as much as I want. Not bad as it saves me a sh!tload in gas.
Now that I got that out of the way, I wanted to share some news... One of the guys that works for me was late today because somebody threw themselve on the Metro track, thus resulting in the metro not operating while the clean-up operation was happening. Now this is poor money management. That schmuck paid $2.50 to do that. I'm sure he or she could have found another way to get the job done and saved themselves a couple bucks all at the same time. The other thing is, that just inconveniences everyone else. Not cool. And finally, I know times are tough but there are always good things to look forward to, like hockey season.. Oh wait, nevermind.
One recent news article that I'm sure some of you will enjoy had the following headline: "Rambo Cellucci has overstayed his welcome." -- Ah yes, our goodold friend Paul Cellucci, former Governor of Massachusetts and current US Ambassador to Canada. Well he's not real popular up here which isn't surprising as he wasn't too popular down there either. A quick scan of any Canadian news site will result in a majority of negative article about our buddy Paul. And to top it, most Candadians know his name quite well, though not for good reasons. Now how many Americans know the name of Canadia's Ambassador to the US? HA! Didn't think so. But guess what, I won't tell you cuz I don't have a clue neither.
Well I'm off to get some groceries now. Just need to decide which warzone I want to shop in. But that's another topic in itself.
Live Long and Prosper
posted by Surviving In The Burbs at 1/05/2005 06:52:00 PM
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