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Light of the Gods
Jan. 30th, 2014 11:27 amThere is a bus stop across the road from my house. That is perfect. One, because it is across the road and therefore quite handy, and two, because it across the road and therefore there are no strangers loitering outside my house all day. Except it's not really all that handy, because the City by the Sea's bus services have traditionally been fairly meagre. They're meant to be once an hour, but there are none from seven-thirty to nine in the morning, when a person might want to get to work, because the buses are used as dedicated school buses during that time. Same again during school home time. So I didn't use the bus very often, but when I did, it took about 5 minutes to get into the city centre, and a couple of minutes to walk to my office. Eight minutes, tops.
Anyway, the bus line announced last year that 2014 would bring exciting new services. More buses, more often! Buses that will go during peak hour even! So last week, I noticed new orange and grey bus stop signs going up. Not on my stop, though. It's still one of the old red ones. Does that mean it's been decommissioned?
I saw a route map today, and yes: my stop is gone. So I typed my address and my work's address in their Find My Bus site, and it seems I have two options. I can walk 600m up a hill in the other direction and catch a bus going to the shopping centre on the outskirts of town, which will then take me back into town, where it will drop me a couple of blocks west of work: total time, including walking, 26 minutes. Or, I can walk the 600m up the hill and catch a different bus heading to the shopping centre, but get off en route on Wanstead Street (Wanstead Street! The City by the Sea's badlands. On Wanstead Street, sometimes... hedges are set on fire! What? Even our criminals are fairly mild.) and walk the rest of the way: total time, 21 minutes. I'm not seeing a huge improvement in my bus service there. Honestly. If I'm going to walk 600m, I might as well just walk 600m towards the city centre and be quarter of the way there.
When I was doing yesterday's meme instalment, I mentioned that I once lived in a place that is now called Mutitjulu, and marked it on the map, but I forgot that non-Australian readers won't recognise the name and won't think 'crikey Moses, how interesting!' So here's the sitch: when I was a wee little thing, the place that is now called Mutitjulu was a tourist area filled with motels and camp grounds. (My mother was the on-site nurse for one of the resorts.) In the 1980s, the tourist places were moved a more respectful distance away, and the traditional owners of the land, being Pitjantjatjara people, built the township of Mutitjulu. Respectful distance away from what?, you may ask. Well, Mutitjulu is point A on this map:
( It's walking distance away )
So there's that. And now onwards:
100 question meme, part III
51. Do you sleep on a certain side of the bed?
The left, just because it's closer to the door. When I stay in hotels, I am happy to change sides if that's where the clock is.
( And 24 more in the same vein )
Anyway, the bus line announced last year that 2014 would bring exciting new services. More buses, more often! Buses that will go during peak hour even! So last week, I noticed new orange and grey bus stop signs going up. Not on my stop, though. It's still one of the old red ones. Does that mean it's been decommissioned?
I saw a route map today, and yes: my stop is gone. So I typed my address and my work's address in their Find My Bus site, and it seems I have two options. I can walk 600m up a hill in the other direction and catch a bus going to the shopping centre on the outskirts of town, which will then take me back into town, where it will drop me a couple of blocks west of work: total time, including walking, 26 minutes. Or, I can walk the 600m up the hill and catch a different bus heading to the shopping centre, but get off en route on Wanstead Street (Wanstead Street! The City by the Sea's badlands. On Wanstead Street, sometimes... hedges are set on fire! What? Even our criminals are fairly mild.) and walk the rest of the way: total time, 21 minutes. I'm not seeing a huge improvement in my bus service there. Honestly. If I'm going to walk 600m, I might as well just walk 600m towards the city centre and be quarter of the way there.
When I was doing yesterday's meme instalment, I mentioned that I once lived in a place that is now called Mutitjulu, and marked it on the map, but I forgot that non-Australian readers won't recognise the name and won't think 'crikey Moses, how interesting!' So here's the sitch: when I was a wee little thing, the place that is now called Mutitjulu was a tourist area filled with motels and camp grounds. (My mother was the on-site nurse for one of the resorts.) In the 1980s, the tourist places were moved a more respectful distance away, and the traditional owners of the land, being Pitjantjatjara people, built the township of Mutitjulu. Respectful distance away from what?, you may ask. Well, Mutitjulu is point A on this map:
( It's walking distance away )
So there's that. And now onwards:
100 question meme, part III
51. Do you sleep on a certain side of the bed?
The left, just because it's closer to the door. When I stay in hotels, I am happy to change sides if that's where the clock is.
( And 24 more in the same vein )