Monday, February 21, 2005

Transport

Taxes are so high, even up to 60%, but you get what you pay for. The city is clean and directions are everywhere. Plus there's an excellent welfare system and things like free health insurance for all. The transport system is well organized, but i just can't understand how to use it.

You can get around with bus, night bus, metro, or tog (trains which come in different flavours, like inter city, regional, etc). Shit, everything is so confusing... the place is divided into zones and there's buses of diferent colours representing different routes, plus timetables with what seem to be the times when buses pass, and belive me, if a bus arrives at 2:42, it does. The entire transport ecosystem works like clockwork and the people in the city swear by it.. its just so efficient. Pity i can't figure out which goes where or what all these train numbers mean.

I just bought a 30-day all-transport card for about Lm60 which is rather steep. Still, its better than buying a per-trip card since i'll probably get lost and catch twice as many trains and buses until i figure this place out.