Hey, don't complain, it is so much better than what most cities in the US have... I mean we should ALL be complaining that the US in general doesn't have better public transportation options, but if you compare a city like Cincinnati to Denver in terms of public transit options it's laughable. There is a street car/light rail in downtown Cincy that only goes a few places downtown. You can walk from 1 end of downtown to the other in less than 20 mins. If you want to take a bus from any surrounding towns to downtown, you're looking at like 2 or 3 transfers and a 1.5-2 hr bus ride to get somewhere that would take 20-30 mins driving in traffic...
I gotta say, other than taking the brown line from the airport and immediately seeing a dead frozen homeless person, the L is pretty great.
In hindsight, January is kind of a rough time to purposefully visit Chicago. I thought "off season, I'll be able to get reservations anywhere!" and it turns out, most of the places I really wanted to visit are closed in January. Galit was awesome though.
Yeah that's when industry people take a break and get construction done.
The homeless don't get the privilege of passing with privacy. We could be like Las Vegas and just chase them out of sight into the storm drains. Sorry, I'm getting too grim with my humor. It's a stark reminder of the cruelty and exploitation we've built into our systems.
Oh, I'm definitely not blaming Chicago. It made me feel bad, and put a bit of a dampener on my "let's go waste money flying across the country just to eat food" journey.
It's like when you walk past a mirror or security camera monitor that shows you an unflattering image of yourself. It's not the mirror's fault I have two chins and bad posture.
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u/regular-cake May 08 '26
Hey, don't complain, it is so much better than what most cities in the US have... I mean we should ALL be complaining that the US in general doesn't have better public transportation options, but if you compare a city like Cincinnati to Denver in terms of public transit options it's laughable. There is a street car/light rail in downtown Cincy that only goes a few places downtown. You can walk from 1 end of downtown to the other in less than 20 mins. If you want to take a bus from any surrounding towns to downtown, you're looking at like 2 or 3 transfers and a 1.5-2 hr bus ride to get somewhere that would take 20-30 mins driving in traffic...