So, seeing as it's crowded here, it can take a while to get places even within the city. Now, Lis and I, trying to be savy, do our best to use public transportation to minimize cost and traffic time. The other day we went to go have dinner with some friends here, and to complete our entire journey we rode our bikes to a subway stop, took an elevated subway (see picture below) to a bus stop, then took a bus for about at long as we could stand it, and then got off and took a taxi the rest of the way.
Why did we only take the bus as long as we could stand it, you ask? Well, there are several reasons. First, it was extremely crowded. No seats, barely any standing room, and seemingly a whole city of 20 million trying to get on our bus. My (Den's) position was right up next to the bus driver. How "right next to the busdriver?" So "right next to the bus driver" that I actually had to move my legs for him to shift gears. Yea, kinda scary. Also, at one point he asked me to remove my backpack because it was obscuring his view of the side mirror. We were pretty tight in there. But honestly, we could have probably handled this "crampedness," if it wasn't for the other problem. We suddenly noticed that there was some smoke in the back of the bus. At first we figured it was just some rude chap lighting up. Then when I heard the busdriver mention the bus was having some problems (remember, I was practically sitting in his lap, so it was no problem hearing him), we looked again and saw the whole back of the bus enveloped in smoke. Something was indeed wrong with the bus. Lis and I didn't stick around to find out what it was, and got off at the next stop and caught a taxi.
So we finally did get to our final destination. Total travel time: 1 and 1/2 hours.
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