I can never keep track of these damned names. I have a whole envelope full of them, and even photographed them once to do some spicy hot take about the unplaceability of them that I realized nobody cares about and hence didn't post.
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To be fair, the “name -> metro” mapping isn’t very useful information to keep track of in one’s brain anyways. That made me look up why Ventra is called Ventra. After using it all these years I didn’t know why, apparently it’s Latin (ish?) for “windy” (presumably, as in “Windy City”)
aug 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah, that one is at least *slightly* memorable. Tell me where the rest of these are from. (I guess I'm going to crack out the photo anyway.)
aug 31, 2025, 12:22 am • 2 0 • view
Apparently I took this photo on Nov 16, 2024, which is the time of the year when I start to get *very* ready for my fall semester to finish…leading me to do things like arranging my travel cards in grids for no good reason. Here, in contrast, are ones that make their location very clear.
aug 31, 2025, 12:25 am • 2 0 • view
I know 3 of those and have two
aug 31, 2025, 12:26 am • 1 0 • view
CTS throwing you off? I'm including it in this photo because I believe the back makes abundantly clear where it's from. Guessing you don't have that and the Delhi one? Gotta say, it's gorgeous! Puts the others to shame.
aug 31, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view
Never been to Delhi! All my cards I got in person cuz it’s hard to do otherwise
aug 31, 2025, 12:30 am • 1 0 • view
More and more my opinion is that Delhi is like Rome but with better food. (-:
aug 31, 2025, 1:39 am • 2 0 • view
So, old, dirty, people driving on sidewalks, and someone will be trying to rob you, but amazing cultural stuff?
aug 31, 2025, 1:40 am • 2 0 • view
Precisely! Both great cities!
aug 31, 2025, 11:19 am • 0 0 • view
Also cars being driven like maniacs and lots of honking for no good reason! (And history hits you at every street corner)
aug 31, 2025, 4:14 am • 2 0 • view
Not sure about the better food, but certainly checks out — I went to Rome at the end of my first Europe trip, and was stunned by how much it felt like home!
aug 31, 2025, 4:13 am • 3 0 • view
I mean, I'll take a great cacio e pepe or carciofi alla Romana or perfectly prepared cicoria contorno any time, but compare that to the union of everything from Central Asia to South India?!?
aug 31, 2025, 11:22 am • 3 0 • view
And also homegrown monstrosities like Gobi Manchurian, I agree! (It’s hard to evaluate food when one has only been to one of those places as a relatively-penniless grad student, so you can see where I was coming from though)
aug 31, 2025, 11:59 am • 3 0 • view
I know the upper leftmost and the one below it, and ventra. Stockholm didn’t have one my last trip there sadly
aug 31, 2025, 12:23 am • 1 0 • view
Also I assume I know lower left but I haven’t been there
aug 31, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
I'm realizing that there is a very, very particular kind of person for which this kind of collection would be an awesome gift. Some of these are prolly as dead as the envelopes of lire and Deutsche Marks and so on that sit next to them.
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
It me, that kind of person
aug 31, 2025, 12:28 am • 1 0 • view
The kind of person who puts rails in their name…
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