One of the funniest aspects to life in Nurnberg, was the public transit system. One of my friends referred to it as “cute”and it is. Nurnberg is not a large city (maybe pushing 500,000 people) but it has this ridiculously comprehensive subway and tram system. I say ridiculously comprehensive, because there are easily 5 times the amount of stops/stations in Nurnberg than there are in Vancouver which covers a larger area and population.
If you’ve ever read anything I’ve written in the past year, you’ll know I’m obsessed with the Nurnberg transit system. Not because of it’s cuteness, but for the sheer fact that of ALL the possible abbreviations, they chose to go with “VAG”. Obviously comical in and of itself, but in German, the ‘v’is pronounced ‘f’and it becomes that much more awkward. The potential for vag jokes was and will remain endless. I thought the days of awkwardly anagrammed transit systems were behind me, but no.
The FART is the public transit system for Locarno. Ok, so it’s not ‘exactly’ the town I live in, but it’s a town over. And the fart has handy buses and trains to take you all kinds of cool places like
here:
and here
Fart.ch as a website would be too good to be true, so thankfully they’ve named the site Centovalli ‘centovalli’(100 valleys) instead. Which is also one of the cool places the fart will take you. The fart will take you on one of the most memorable train journeys of your life. A memorable ride on the fart.
Ahhh….let the jokes begin!
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"Ride the FART--it's a gas!"
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