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Gilligboi · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:35 am Post subject: Hi

Hello all I am Gillig boi. I'm glad to find other people that like buses as much as I do. lol my friends think I am a tad odd but they always come crawling to me begging for bus directions so its all good.

I also have an amusing talent. If you give me a random number I can tell you what king county metro, sound transit or community transit bus route that is Smile

go ahead try me.

N4 Jamaica · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Long Island

Welcome!
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Gilligboi · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:54 pm Post subject: Lol my spellings crap

N4 Jamaica · Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Long Island

Playing with route numbers, I particularly like the way the drivers of Route 38 in Paris have a website about how they enjoy their work. Link below:
http://bus38.online.fr/francais_ie.html
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When you get to that page, look for the menu on the left and select "Les 38 du Monde." They have found sixty Route 38's around the world.
Joe McMahon

timecruncher · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:03 pm Post subject:

Here is the "parle englais" version of this webiste. It is translated almost literally, so syntax and noun-verb agreement are a bit out of whack.

http://bus38.online.fr/indexenglish.html

I rode the bus with the webmaster for this site about 10 years ago while visiting Paris. He had a 'short-turn' trip at Chatelet and had a few minutes of layover. The guy is a part-time bus driver who plays the tenor saxaphone on the side (he once sent me a photo of him sitting in on a jam with Supertramp!).

When we got to Porte de Orleans, he invited me into the end-of-line transit center's dispatch office and driver lounge. Introducing me as from Louisville, Kentucky, damn near everyone grinned -- "Ahh, Kentucky Fried!"

Hey, we is what we is! One thing for certain, the job of bus operator is little different in the City of Lights than it is here. Traffic, bonehead drivers, distracted and somewhat clueless passengers, its all there!

The Renault Agorra low-floor was almost new in this photo. RATP carries on the unique Paris tradition of having portable signs hung on the front, sides and rear of their buses, although the signs are now fiberglass instead of wood.

timecruncher

Heh - yes, "Kentucky Fried" rather than Frite Poulet Kentucky." KFC is ubiquitous even in the country that makes the world's best wines and has the world's finest gourmet kitchens!

Gilligboi · Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:21 pm Post subject:

Our route 38 goes from Beacon hill to Mount baker TC. It is one of *those* routes where you feel like you want latex gloves and a surgical mask because of all the smelly homeless people.