Tap-phone-to-pay subway an ease-of-use game changer. Remembering what it’s like to have a functioning transit system. Super easy to get around. Nobody doing drugs on train.

@Popehat I'm intensely jealous of European mass transit. But I follow a bunch of European transit wonks, and they're all about their systems' failures. Indeed, European car dependency, while much better than in the US, is still pretty horrible.

Sorry, I'm spoiling your trip, aren't I? Just ignore me.