One of the major things here that i have never experienced before was public transportation. Coming from such a small town you can pretty much walk where ever you want to go, so having buses, taxies and a subway was a new thing for me. An although it is great having all this so close, i have been here a month and still haven't had to put gas in my tank, I always seem to be on or need to get on a subway when something goes wrong. First time was when i was on my way to an event at The Toonseum. I was on the subway when all of a sudden it stopped, the driver soon got on the radio telling us a barge hit the bridge the train goes over and we would have to get off at South Hills Junction, 4 stops away from where i had to get off. Me being only 2 weeks in Pittsburgh I was terrified not knowing how i was going to get to work. When i Subway stopped i ran to the first bus i saw, it took us over to downtown and i opted to get off right after the bridge. Thankfully I had walked around downtown a bit the week before and 1 hour later i finally made it to work and the trolley was running fine the way home. Twice the first time after a Steelers game and the second at Light Up Night, the trolleys were so packed it took forever just to get home. During light up night it took me over an hour and 20 min just to fit on one of the cars after waiting over 30min for one to actually come through.
The last fun experience ive had so far was just a few weeks ago. After an event i walked to my usual subway station to find out it was closed down and cops surrounded the building, come to find out a car had derailed an i had to find my way to Steel Plaza. Not knowing where in hell that was i again hopped on a bus it then taking me 30 min to get to the station and another hour to get home.
So other than those handful of times the trolly hasn't been that bad, and i do enjoy having public transportation a lot, although i do wish the trains would actually go further into Pittsburgh, maybe some day....yeah right.
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