(♦) Expect occasional squinting through a haze of Other Guy’s cigarette smoke while waiting for rides in both Zurich and Copenhagen. (And perhaps in Stockholm and Moscow, too. Your scribe took inadequate notes.) ‘Smoking europe’ in the omnibox pulled up this. (♦) Also expect to see much more graffiti in both Zurich and Copenhagen than…
All posts in June 2014
How I Get Around
I didn’t pull a flat EKG after the last post after all, and will celebrate with an overdue account of my own travel habits. A next-to-nobody like me could bump along on a Chalmers Rotobaler, for all anyone cares, but I think that those who vote or sound off on transit issues should be forthcoming…
Zurich and Copenhagen
Copenhagen and Zurich have to be two of the world’s best cities for life without a car. I write ‘have to be’ because my visit to each was brief; I acknowledge that a longer look-around might dilute my enthusiasm. But I can’t believe I’d see anything to dilute it very much. I hope I sound…
About those transit gulags
Stockholm’s new towns — no longer very new, and referred to as gulags only playfully — are the clusters of housing and commercial development herded about the outlying stations of the T-bana metro system. Transit guru Robert Cervero beamed about them in Transit Metropolis, and here I was jetting off to Europe anyway. I figured…