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A Month Without Transit

February 26, 2011 Public Transit 3 Comments

Last summer I decided to begin using transit for the bulk of my transportation needs.  I was doing well July 2010 through January 2011.

metropassBut then the snow & ice came in February.  It must have started in late January because I couldn’t get out to even buy a February pass.   Sure, I could have ordered it online but I decided I’d wait and see what happened.  We had that one nice week but I didn’t have a pass.  I could have bo0ught individual tickets but I find myself more willing to use transit when I can just swipe the pass rather than pull out money and not lose a transfer.

I went to the sales office at the SE corner of the convention center yesterday and bought a pass for March.  It feels better having the pass in my wallet, especially with rising gas prices. Now is the time to give transit a try, don’t wait until July when gas prices may exceed highs from July 2008.

– Steve Patterson

 

Currently there are "3 comments" on this Article:

  1. Stlelsewhere says:

    wow man, you know you can buy a 30 day pass at any metrolink station, right?

     
  2. That's pretty high for a neighborhood without its own metro stop. And I can tell you that with the exception of this mistaken position over shuttle routing, the ANC and CAG are very pro-transit. And I say that as someone actually involved with both …

     

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