Tantrum on the Quay
Inside a TRAX car
Unlike its network of buses, Salt Lake’s light rail system (codename: TRAX) runs on a fairly rigid schedule. The potential downside is that you need to actually be ready to board on time, because the driver will not wait for you. A father and his two sons discovered this when they showed up on the platform just in time to miss the 3:22pm Sandy train. They shouted imprecations after the driver for a few minutes, and then left, presumably to find something to do until the next train left in a half-hour.
It only took one such experience (minus the profanity) for me to give up on pursuing trains. Now if I see my train waiting for me at the platform I just assume it will pull away just as I get to it; that way, if I do somehow manage to jump aboard before the driver can make his escape, it’s a pleasant surprise, and if I don’t, I just shrug philosophically. Those TRAX drivers, I think to myself resignedly, We all know they’re out to get us.
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