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Posted by BrooklynBus on Thu Dec 1 12:12:09 2011, in response to Re: How the MTA is Destroying the Local Bus System, posted by Mr RT on Wed Nov 30 13:50:36 2011. First of all, it depends how you define a bus fan. To me it is someone who is obsessed with the bus vehicle itself and the various models and manufacturers. I would consider myself obsessed with bus routes and service. To me that is not a traditional bus fan, since my knowledge though wide in certain areas is very limited in others. I become interested in transportation in other areas only after personally visiting there. I wouldn't pick up a book or map to study routes in cities where I have never been. A true bus fan would. I have very little interest in the specific models of buses although I have attended bus rodeos and bus vests and took only one subway fan trip in my life.As far as posting here, I never saw any rule that you had to be a bus fan. I get far less criticism and more support on NYC Transit Forums than I do here. They are also bus fans, but I believe that many of them over there are more intelligent than those here. That is evidenced by the lack of flame wars there and more sticking to the issues than on this forum. But I post here also to reach as die an audience as possible and also to learn about news events that are posted here. Some of the criticism I get here is intelligent and I enjoy conversing with those individuals, but not with some of them who cannot argue a point intelligently. As far as trying to change someone's mind, that is not possible when you are dealing with someone who will not open up their mind to accept new information and are convinced they are right no matter what evidence is presented to them, some of which they will refuse to even read, but have no problem in offering an opinion to something they admit they never even read. For those people there is no hope. (first paragraph should read bus fests not bus vests. iPad changes words it doesnt know if you don't catch it right away.) |
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