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  • It's that time of week again

    Okay, so I have one more bus ride before my last UTA trip this week, but I can always edit to add later if needed.

    UTA rail map for reference

    Why is this a hard concept
    As you can see on the map, our rail system is not that complicated, 4 lines, that's it.
    We implemented this system three months ago when the west valley extension and west jordan extensions were completed, yet still I on a regular basis have people on the train ask me for directions because the new system is so complicated...

    My grandma who could lose her car in the parking lot because she didn't see the truck she parked next to would be able to understand that map.

    Huh-wuh
    I boarded the Blue line at Sandy Civic Center... note that is the only line that serves that station. Guy who got on after me asked if this train went all the way to Salt Lake (you know, because the sign board that says Blue Line to Salt Lake Central didn't give that away), I replied, yes it goes all the way to Salt Lake Central (in fairness, there are multiple stations with "central" in the name, so it is conceivable that he misheard), and he replied "oh, so I have to transfer there to go downtown"...
    Umm, sure, I guess if you really want to you can go past downtown to Salt Lake Central and transfer to the Green line to go back through downtown.

    Bonus points for stupid
    Same train ride someone asked me if how to get to the University, they boarded at Midvale Center, I told them that they would have to transfer to the Red line either at Fashion Place West or Courthouse.
    He then went on to bitch about how much it sucked that we had to transfer now to get to the university...
    ...
    ...
    Umm, from Midvale you always had to transfer to get the the University (okay, so there was a rush hour shuttle at one point in time that offered direct service, this was not rush hour though), so why is it now a huge deal that you transfer at either Fashion Place West or Courthouse rather than at Gallivan Plaza where the transfer used to be

    You just now realized this?
    "You mean that we have to pay more to use the Frontrunner line"
    ...ummm, yes, it is the high speed express service, all express services cost more money, in every city, in every state, of every nation of this planet.
    "It's not right that we have to pay more to use Frontrunner"
    Fine, then transfer to a bus and take three hours to make your way up to Ogden rather than 50 minutes. Hell, I'd gladly pay more for the Frontrunner service to go to Orem rather than dealing with the buses... sadly it doesn't go that far south yet.
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  • #2
    That's not the clearest map I've ever seen, but it does show a remarkably simple system - essentially a trunk line with some branches off it. It should be pretty near impossible to get lost on that.

    Now THIS I could understand getting lost in.

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    • #3
      Ok I thought Boston (MBTA) had a complicated system Seoul's is worse.

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      • #4
        Quoth Chromatix View Post
        Now THIS I could understand getting lost in.
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        • #5
          Quoth Chromatix View Post

          Now THIS I could understand getting lost in.

          That map scares me.

          Do people just lose their minds when vehicles are involved, be they cars, buses or whatever?
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          • #6
            Thanks deity for the iPhone's map app. ^_^ I'd never have moved to the ghetto if I hadn't had that app. Granted its a single short bus ride from my house to work but getting to my sister's house is a bit harder.
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            • #7
              Quoth Chromatix View Post
              That's not the clearest map I've ever seen, but it does show a remarkably simple system - essentially a trunk line with some branches off it. It should be pretty near impossible to get lost on that.

              Now THIS I could understand getting lost in.
              As a non-driver (and therefore constant purveyor of public transport) that made me want to go take a nice long lie-down somewhere quiet. Preferably sedated
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              • #8
                Did anyone else think of one of these when reading the topic title? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv6IWX1_XHQ
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                • #9
                  This is what I deal with as far as buses go:
                  http://www.thebus.org/SystemMap/SystemMap.asp
                  Grab the wrong bus and you can be circling the island.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Chromatix View Post
                    That's not the clearest map I've ever seen, but it does show a remarkably simple system - essentially a trunk line with some branches off it. It should be pretty near impossible to get lost on that.

                    Now THIS I could understand getting lost in.
                    In fairness, that is a fairly low quality map than the ones they have posted on the trains and the platforms.

                    The Seoul map looks massive and confusing.
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                    • #11
                      The most confusing thing about the Seoul map is that several of the lines have splits at the ends. How does that even work?

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                      • #12
                        Seoul is scary-looking.

                        Maybe it's just me, but I found Boston's system (at least the train part, since I don't take the buses) to be easy enough to comprehend, and this coming from a girl who never once encountered public transit until she went to college. Yay for growing up in farming country in the middle of nowhere.
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                        • #13
                          Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
                          The most confusing thing about the Seoul map is that several of the lines have splits at the ends. How does that even work?

                          ^-.-^
                          If they work like some of the Japan lines, the trains could actually split apart, the front going one way while the back goes another. Even then, it's just a matter being on the right half of the train if you're going past the split. Otherwise, that map looks pretty understandable. They even mark the multi-line stations well.
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Geek King View Post
                            If they work like some of the Japan lines, the trains could actually split apart, the front going one way while the back goes another. Even then, it's just a matter being on the right half of the train if you're going past the split. Otherwise, that map looks pretty understandable. They even mark the multi-line stations well.
                            Really? This would make a plot point in one of the Professor Layton games more plausible.
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                            • #15
                              That map doesn't look particualrly complicated to me, but then I'm used to the London Rail and Tube map http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1106.aspx (about 8 links down, on the right hand side.)

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