subway systems i've used

8/12/23: changing this to a list citing the first time I rode each system rather than having it call dozens of images from a server that no longer exists, because the list still delights me :) and this only applies to subways and commuter rails and trains; the original checklist didn't include bus-only transit systems. One of these days I should do an updated version for every system I've added since 2006, but that'll take some time.

1. Bay Area: BART, since birth


2. San Francisco: Muni, since birth


3. Vancouver: Skytrain, June 1986 for the Expo


4. London: the Tube, August 1988, family wedding


5. Glasgow: Glasgow Subway, August 1988, family wedding


6. Paris: RER, April 1991, family vacation


7. Paris: Metro, April 1991, family vacation


8. Berlin: Berlin U-Bahn, June 1992, YMCA exchange program


9. Brussels: Metro, June 1994, Fiddler tour


10. Boston: MBTA, February 1995, college tour, now every day of my life


11. Chicago: the El, August 1995, college tour


12. Chicago: Metra, August 1995, college tour


13. New York: New York subway, October 1996, to see Rent for a class, obviously a bajillion times since :)


14. Miami: Miami, November 1996 with Ingrid and Gabe


15. Salzburg: S-Bahn, May 1999, choir tour


16. Vienna: U-Bahn, May 1999, choir tour


17. Genoa: AMT, June 1999, choir tour


18. Milan: Metro, June 1999, choir tour


19. DC: Metro, August 1999, singing David Duchovny with 20-odd other fellow Philes; obviously dozens of times since.


20. Los Angeles: Metro, February 2000, for the Vagina Monologues; definitely know it better since we started spending the December holidays here more frequently


21. Montreal: STM, May 2002 with Alex


22. Baltimore: MARC, January 2003, to see Andrew


23. Philadelphia: SEPTA, August 2003, visiting Meeta


24. Atlanta: MARTA, September 2004, for a wedding


25. Hong Kong: MTR, October 2004, visiting my brother


26. Shenzhen: Metro, October 2004, side trip to China


27. New York: the Path; believe it or not, not until May 2006


28. Toronto: TTC, August 2006, road trip with Hyoun

And I still have my Octopus Card and SmarTrip, as well as a couple of old MetroCards in my wallet. Though I don't have this month's CharliePass, since I forgot to get it before I went on vacation. Oops.

(Also, if you do this meme, its code is sucky enough that you'll want to either edit the HTML or put it behind a cut. Plus, it doesn't put them in in the order you clicked on them, nor in alphabetical order. I'm rearranging mine to reflect chronological order. :) But the premise was nifty enough for me to take it anyway!)