How shall we travel 'round our fair city?
October 18th 2007 01:47
Youngsters of today, leaders of tomorrow; how do you get from here to there? Yes alright, that sentence need to be reworked but right now it's the best I can do so keep your shirt on. Not content with knowing whether you bathe or shower, why you drink and how many of you are smokers, this little blogger wants to know how your little butts commute around the city.
Well, despite the ailling rail services of New South Wales in particular, it seems a fair amount of you get from Point A to Point B (and on the week ends Point C) on one of our fair state's trains. Part of this is down to price, I mean you can save up for a ticket but it's considerably harder to save up for a car. Part of this is convenience, I mean have you tried driving/attemped parking in the citiy's CBD? It's a bloody nightmare, I reckon the majority of people in therapy only decided they needed to speak to someone after they drove through the city for a day- awful stuff. And so I guess part of it is also down to access; you can see the train station and the train. Once the doors open you can get on and off, it's not like no exiting between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri. Now, if only the trains went a little beyond snail pace and didn't break down on the day of your High School Finals or very important job interviews, I reckon we'd all be quite happy to take the train.
Some of you, however, prefer to conjest the streets with your auotmobiles. Yes we're screwing up the invironemnt but who cares, I've got a really loud horn that I can beep to make poeple move out of my way and I can race you across the intersection once the lights turn yellow- what fun. Some of you have even learned how to park in the city if you can believe that, so you're immuned to the horrors of the CBD at peek hour. What clever little munchinks you can be! But you probably don't see it that way, do you? No, for you it was probably more about survival of the fittest- you needed to learn how to steal that parking spot at 7 in the morning or you wouldn't have that ever so good looking job on your resume.
So what have we learned about Gen Y's travel habbits? Well, while the the majory are willing to take the train although that's not to say they're perfect; they just seem to be the lesser of 2 evils. Those that have mastered the dark art of driving, some even through the business areas when they are at the businest are in legue with the Devil and should be reported to the authorites on sight.
Well, despite the ailling rail services of New South Wales in particular, it seems a fair amount of you get from Point A to Point B (and on the week ends Point C) on one of our fair state's trains. Part of this is down to price, I mean you can save up for a ticket but it's considerably harder to save up for a car. Part of this is convenience, I mean have you tried driving/attemped parking in the citiy's CBD? It's a bloody nightmare, I reckon the majority of people in therapy only decided they needed to speak to someone after they drove through the city for a day- awful stuff. And so I guess part of it is also down to access; you can see the train station and the train. Once the doors open you can get on and off, it's not like no exiting between 9am-5pm Mon-Fri. Now, if only the trains went a little beyond snail pace and didn't break down on the day of your High School Finals or very important job interviews, I reckon we'd all be quite happy to take the train.
Some of you, however, prefer to conjest the streets with your auotmobiles. Yes we're screwing up the invironemnt but who cares, I've got a really loud horn that I can beep to make poeple move out of my way and I can race you across the intersection once the lights turn yellow- what fun. Some of you have even learned how to park in the city if you can believe that, so you're immuned to the horrors of the CBD at peek hour. What clever little munchinks you can be! But you probably don't see it that way, do you? No, for you it was probably more about survival of the fittest- you needed to learn how to steal that parking spot at 7 in the morning or you wouldn't have that ever so good looking job on your resume.
So what have we learned about Gen Y's travel habbits? Well, while the the majory are willing to take the train although that's not to say they're perfect; they just seem to be the lesser of 2 evils. Those that have mastered the dark art of driving, some even through the business areas when they are at the businest are in legue with the Devil and should be reported to the authorites on sight.
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