In article , Paul Corfield
writes
I've had almost the same reaction on telling people I went on the Subway
in New York to Brooklyn. "You did what? Do you know how dangerous that
is?"
"Err, I am standing here and am still alive to tell the tale. It wasn't
that bad."

I had something similar some years ago from a New Yorker friend:

"What did you do yesterday evening?"
I tell him
"You rode ... on the subway ... for *FUN*?!?!"

[I had a local enthusiast as a guide, but I'd got to NY for both
evenings via local train in New Jersey and then PATH.]

I think it adds to the experience to travel
about how the residents do - the Tokyo rail system is certainly an
experience ;-)

Very true. And then there's the Bucuresti trams. And, some years ago,
the Leningrad trolleybuses. 4 kopeks flat fare, with an "honesty box"
for payment.

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Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

In article , Paul Corfield
writes
I've had almost the same reaction on telling people I went on the Subway
in New York to Brooklyn. "You did what? Do you know how dangerous that
is?"
"Err, I am standing here and am still alive to tell the tale. It wasn't
that bad."

I had something similar some years ago from a New Yorker friend:

"What did you do yesterday evening?"
I tell him
"You rode ... on the subway ... for *FUN*?!?!"

[I had a local enthusiast as a guide, but I'd got to NY for both
evenings via local train in New Jersey and then PATH.]

It might have been what they considered your odd choice of leisure
activity, rather than concerns for your personal security, that
elicited that type of response!


I think it adds to the experience to travel
about how the residents do - the Tokyo rail system is certainly an
experience ;-)

Very true. And then there's the Bucuresti trams. And, some years ago,
the Leningrad trolleybuses. 4 kopeks flat fare, with an "honesty box"
for payment.


Did you manage to gauge how honest passengers were?

On 16 Jan 2007 04:40:10 -0800, "Mizter T" wrote:


Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

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Very true. And then there's the Bucuresti trams. And, some years ago,
the Leningrad trolleybuses. 4 kopeks flat fare, with an "honesty box"
for payment.


Did you manage to gauge how honest passengers were?

If it was in the "good old days" there was probably someone else
already doing that.