Re: Australian visitor to San Diego downtown transit office

["Mike Alexander" <malex@bigfoot.com>]

At the same transit office (in September 2000) I was told that they didn't
have a system-wide map; it simply didn't exist.

Seems like the story depends on who you talk to.


Regards,

Mike Alexander
(malex @ bigfoot com)

"David McLoughlin" <davemcl@NO***damned***SPAMiprolink.co.nz> wrote in
message 3a503446@news.iprolink.co.nz">news:3a503446@news.iprolink.co.nz...
> Paul Nicholson wrote:
> >
> > I was in San Diego a few weeks ago and went to the downtown transit
office
> > to ask for a map of the system.
> > The clerk, in the "robot" style one often finds in the United States,
told
> > me that maps were only available to local residents.
> > Is this practice common in the United States?
>
>
> I can't answer for San Diego, as I have yet to go there, but everywhere
> else I have been in the US (and everywhere else in the world I have
> been), I have had no problem getting transit maps from ticket booths,
> tourist agencies etc. Even when I have had to use sign language to ask
> for them for want of a common spoken language.
>
> Many cities just have a map you can take off a rack at the transit
> depot, you don't even have to ask. They want people to ride their
> transit lines, not just limit riders to those with local knowledge, who
> probably have cars anyway.
>
> David McLoughlin
> Auckland New Zealand