Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'

Re:Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones' by pessimizer on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:33PM (#7461245)

Chicago is easy. It's laid out on a grid with a very few diagonal arteries. Texting CTABUS XXXX to 41411(where XXXX is the stop number) tells you when the next bus is coming.

There's only a couple of trains, and they shouldn't be very hard to get a handle on.

All of this is easy for me to say (having been born in Chicago), but there's really not a lot to memorize. It's no New York.

Edit: Here's a tip; memorize the major East-West boulevards on the North side (their order, if not their number.) The city is Cartesian, and that helps a lot with the conversion.

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Re:Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones' by superuser2 on Monday March 24, 2014 @06:12PM (#7462028)

Yeah, but I don't have bus stop locations memorized (except around campus), and the most efficient route depends on exactly when you're traveling. Having Google figure this out for me is really convenient.

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