Zen in the Art of Travel Behavior:
Using Visual Ethnography to Understand the Transit Experience

This is one of the most stressful moments of the trip. What if the bus comes when the light is red? To jaywalk or not to jaywalk? A ticket would be such a blow to my ego...

Rapid-fire, as one tends to do.

The wait begins.

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Not a lover of Tyler Perry. I'm a big fan of Black cinema, but his movies are terrible. Yet they do huge box office numbers. Can someone explain this to me?

Too bad I don't live in the valley. It doesn't stop at Wyton either, I guess cause its "rapid?"

We've been waiting about 12 minutes now. Come on, bus!

The #2 arrives. 20 minutes at 5:30pm on a Monday? I'm unimpressed.

Have you seen that thing? A dog chases a (mouse? rat?) and you have to spot the differences in two scenarios. Which isn't exactly easy since the graphics are blurry and circa early 1990s. Whoever came up with that gem is special. Though he's narrowly defeated by the weather in Spanish for my favorite Transit TV programming. I LOVE Transit TV.

Hadn't seen that before, at least on Metro.

The man announces, "Sunset and Beverly Glen, followed by, Sunset and Beverly Glen." Gets me every time.

And almost bowled me over trying to get out of the bus.

You wait forever for the bus, and then it's super crowded.

Entering traffic on Sunset in West Hollywood.

A crowded bus crawling through traffic is like sunshine and lollipops.

Never realized how narrow that back door was until I spent a full bus trip in it.

Those Makers Mark whiskey adds have been tormenting me for weeks. I bet my fellow riders could use a shot right about now--the driver hasn't yet opened the front door because the bus is so crowded.

Why is this night (the same) as every other night?