@Tvorsk @Leucrotta I saw and boosted one today, even!

@frost @Leucrotta It's a very polite yote. :)

@Tvorsk @frost *politely gets off at the Pioneer Square station and goes running off towards Powell's City of Books*

@Leucrotta @Tvorsk do you tap your transit card to the faregates on the way out, confusing the humans, or just hop over/under them? :3

@Leucrotta @Tvorsk (the two genders,)

@frost @Leucrotta Transit around here operates on the *dis*honor system, so no gates to jump...

@Tvorsk @frost afaik the Max is a tap before you get on the train, with the caveat that the transit police might come through to check to see if you really bought a ticket. I might be getting confused with Seattle/Orca cards though, I've only been on the Max a few times.

@Leucrotta @Tvorsk VTA down south of us is like that!

Also ooo you have real trains up there?

@frost @Tvorsk Sort of. They've been adding a train system to public transit slowly - it's mostly linear but they're putting a spur out to Bellevue. It's not as nice as Max, but it's fast, it's really nice for this area.

@Leucrotta @Tvorsk Ooh neat! Sounds like we should still stay here for now, though. :3

(seriously, I /love/ the trains and I don't wanna live somewhere without trains now. Buses just don't have the cool factor, even light rail is close but still doesn't match.)

What's Max?

@frost @Leucrotta Max is the train network the coyote in the Modest Mouse video was taking.
It's "light rail" but then I think a lot of commuter oriented systems get that designation due to running smaller gauge and/or otherwise not being designed to allow massive cargo on the tracks...

@Tvorsk @Leucrotta OH! Oh, huh.