Tracking Transport

Original Facebook Date: December 23, 2007

Location: Study - I can't find any incense - Trouble

Feeling: Bored

Listening to: Foo Fighters - Times Like These

Days are very odd when you don’t plan them ahead or have any way to spend them. Music doesn’t remove your numbness.

Today’s entry is very dry. To write something without inspiration is always hard.

Society shall not see my wrath today, I have more happy (sickening) words today, respecting the way I like to move. Well, the thing is that driving has not won my liking, not at all. Not just by my incident (fine, accident) with the truck (how the fuck do you say volqueta?) in which I had a everything but enjoyable experience, but also the usual rutine of traffic and driving through the motorhell that is my beloved city of Bogotá. The buses (huge, ugly buzzards that make your life impossible), the taxis (rats of the road) and motorcycles (they take your hearts off your chests) all make driving a fast way to get old. And after giving some scratches to my mother’s car (shit!), I don’t think I want a car of my own (the responsability would just trample all over me). I haven’t felt the Need for Speed (come on, sue me if you can!) yet, and hopefuly I won’t feel it. But in a city like Bogotá, having a car is almost essential. Transmilenio can go but so far and buses (some might say that that’s all they need, but fuck I hate them) shit what we breath. This city’s air is full of crap because of those motherfucking buses.

So, any options? Why yes. Subway! [SUBWAY!(SUUUUUUBWAAAAAYYY!!!)], It has forever been the answer to our beloved chaos, and thankfuly it will be done. (Disclaimer:I didn’t want Samuel Moreno to win, but if he can get this going, then fuck yes!!). And there’s my solution. But still, it will be at least 10 years until it has any use to me, but I suppose I’ll still be living in Bogotá. You see I’ve always loved subways and ridden them with joy. They’re practical, efficient and eco-friendly. The New York City subway is by far my favorite, I felt that the whole city (which is one of my favorites in the world) was at my grasp I could go anywhere any time. Station’s were very abundant [this word is funny(jo-jooooo-jo)] and its damn fast.The Paris subway is another one to mention, with a very large route map and trains that can’t be heard when they arrive.

Now there’s something about a Subway for Bogotá that worries me a bit. You see, I heard a rumor that the Bogotá subway would be based on the Santiago subway but I’ve been researching about it and I’m not sure if it’s a good model. You see the trains of the Santiago subway are not very wide and the stations look very big. Santiago has a population of about 4 million, and therefore not that much transit of people. But Bogotá has 7 million and narrow trains are not a good investment. The other problem are the stations, because the Bogotá floor is very, how to say this, weak. You see very tall buildings cannot be built in the city other wise they’d sink. Have you seen the streets? The holes? Its because of the floor. A station as big as a, for example, a supermarket may not be good for the buildings above. But then again I’m hopefully wrong, I don’t know about geology (and I’m proud of it).

All this subway talking left me hungry.

Sharkman, signing off.

PS: Happy Holidays.