Spare Air

Today was a Spare the Air day. Part of that campaign to reduce smog when the weather makes it dangerous and they encourage everyone to try public transportation to appreciate it's value. It's a great idea and I encourage people to try it when they get the chance. Your life really does improve if you don't have to drive every day. Cars are very freeing, but so isolating.

But it doesn't seem like this grand effort to change people got implemented that well. Caltrains was delayed because someone got hit by a southbound train this morning. I stood out in the morning sun for nearly an hour and on the shuttle bus from the train station to campus I heard some folks talking about how South Bay's lightrail suffered a blackout that delayed them half an hour. So though I planned to take the train and get to work early, I actually ended up later than usual. And lots of people probably had the same sort of inconvenience today. But as bad as it was, there's that one guy who never did make it this morning. If you're trying to beat a train, you're never going to win. You just aren't.