Transportation
This just in from the year 2020:
Greenville, Thank you! I thank you for making transportation such a moving experience! (No pun intended.)
I get up in the morning, and walk from my house along those lovely, wide sidewalks that now line all our roads, to the shops on the corner of Woodruff Road at Five Forks. From there, I get onto the Woodruff Road PeopleMover, which takes me from one mall to another and another, with convenient hop-on-hop-off points along the way. No more maddening bumper-to-bumper traffic, with soccer-moms on their cell phones careening about and ready to rear-end me.
And it’s not just shopping that your wise transportation policy has made easier for me. I take the 385 Express Tram from Woodruff Rd. to my doctor’s office at the Patewood complex. Or perhaps we might make a spring excursion to the zoo. Or we’ll go right downtown, to the Main Street Mall, which used to be a traffic nightmare but now is a pedestrian’s paradise. With the influx of strollers, even Bergamo opens for late lunch (pranzo in Italian). It’s amazing how commercial activity throughout the city has blossomed with the coming of an intelligent transportation policy.
From Downtown, I can hop on the Green line tram to attend a music recital at Furman University, or even travel through Traveler’s Rest via MagneCar right up to the funicular that takes me to Caesar’s Head Park for a summer’s picnic near the Solar Collection site.
Or, from Downtown, I might choose to board the Orange Line, which whisks me out to the game at Clemson. (Okay, I was never really big on tail-gating.) And Anderson’s also just a few stops away on the Blue Line.
For a special treat, I’ll go downtown and grab the BulletTrain to Atlanta — I do love the High Museum, though I just wish that Atlanta’s transportation would make it easier for the visitor to get to Buckhead. Every few months, I take the same BulletTrain (in the opposite direction, natch’) to Washington, D.C., to visit my nephew. Thirty minutes to Atlanta, three hours to DC: Greenville, you’ve become the hub of the universe! Well, at least my universe.
All this, and totally green and non-polluting—ain’t solar reat?
So thank you, Greenville, for being the progressive town you were always meant to be!