Transit Stories

Strange and wonderful (and some not so wonderful) moments can happen during our adventures on transit. Some folks think these stories are worth telling.

Commute.org, the San Mateo County's Transportation Demand Management Agency,  recently had a contest to find out their transit riders' best commuter stories.  There was a prize for the best, and three were posted on the website. The San Mateo TDMA is also finding very creative ways to get people out of their cars and onto transit. Take for instance, events like their singles mixers on the rails.

Riders post their stories occasionally too. Try reading some here and here.
Know of a better one?  Comment with your own story if it strikes your fancy.

Comments

[Ben]

One of my favorite transit sites is the CTA Tattler. Plenty of griping about the corruption in the CTA and lots of hilarious stories about the assorted freaks and weirdos that seem to live on the trains and busses!

http://kjo84.typepad.com/cta_tattler/

[Ben]

And another one! This is a call for the grossest thing witnessed on the CTA. Us Chicagoans do enjoy talking about our transit!!

http://www.gapersblock.com/fuel/archives/cta_grossness/

[Valerie]

This is a true story, repeated from a Mad Magazine I read in the 1980's. After all of these years, though, this one stuck with me. I thought of it tonight and just had to share it.

There was a man on a crowded el train in New York City. The train was pulling into a station. As the subway doors opened, another man bumped into the man when he was getting off of the train. The man reached back and felt -- his wallet was missing.

So he reached an arm out to grab the man that was exiting, just as the el doors were closing. He held onto the man by his jacket and literally ran the guy down the train platform. The man let go of the other man when his jacket ripped. He had torn a big hole into the back of it and still had the piece of jacket in his hand when he got to work.

When he got into work, he was told that his wife called and wanted him to call her -- he had left his wallet on the dresser that morning at home.