[s-cars] Thought provoking stuff......NAC

[Cody Forbes]

I immagine metro Austie-land is much like metro Asia, they are pretty close. I was in AU a while ago, I wouldn't doubt the system has changed. It certainly would be nice if some metro US cities took a lesson from our more advanced counterparts.

Traveling with sctuff is certainly a drawback. I tried walking up and down some hills toting waaaay too much luggage from the hotel to the main depot and it just didn't work out. Fortunately I was in Sydney rather then your given US destination and some onlooking locals were very glad to help out (and they didn't even take my stuff!).

-Cody




---- Original Message ----
From: Taka Mizutani
To: Cody Forbes
Cc: Fred Munro ; djdawson2 at aol.com ; jim at activelifestylemassage.com ;
s-car-list at audifans.com Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Thought provoking stuff......NAC

> Tokyo is like that as well- you can actually get a RFID enabled
> cellphone and "load" money, just wave your phone at the gate and it
> will let you in, wave on the way out and it calculates the
> appropriate fare deduction.   
> 
> Subway and trains pretty much allow you to get anywhere, although
> sometimes it can require several transfers between lines. 
> 
> Driving is pretty much impossible in Tokyo, anyway- it would take you
> forever to get anywhere. The ironic thing is, when you're traveling,
> it's impossible to carry a lot of luggage on mass transit, so you
> need to take a taxi from the major station to your destination unless
> you like lugging a bunch of bags up and down stairs and trying to get
> through a huge mass of people everywhere, which also doesn't really
> work.      
> 
> Taka