coffeefog

baby bullet

(written last night, posted this morning)

Today's the first day of the Caltrain Baby Bullet. Everybody's blogging about it. And you know what? I'm sitting on a local train like a chump. I rode the local to work in the morning, and I'm riding the local home now at night. That's what happens when you're "busy" and "can't leave work just yet", you miss all the fast trains. And since the bullet's covering a lot of the commuter traffic, this agonizingly slow (40 minutes slower for my commute) local train is pretty empty. There are 5 people on my car (capacity 74), and the train has like 8 cars. I bet that, given the fact that we all paid about $4 for our tickets, and given the cost of running the whole train up and down the peninsula just to move like 30 people, it would have been cheaper if Caltrans had just gotten us each a hooker and some blow and told us to chill out at the train station we started at until tomorrow morning.