~ Meredith ~
Crush
I love cities. Especially the best ones, where you can walk down a street and get residential, businesses, schools and doctors and dog washers all crammed together. And you’ll find people, a crush of people. Even when they are mean and pushy and smell like armpits and old shoes, cities would be bleak without their people.
I love public transit. I feel so proud of Victorians for shovelling out the London Underground and engineering a second city from the mud. I beam at the radiance of Montreal’s STM stations in all their candy coloured hues. I marvel at the massiveness of Tokyo’s and of Paris’ Metro. How wonderful to move so many millions so efficiently… don’t even get me started on Hong Kong.
I love Meredith’s Utata Goes mobile street series. The phone has to be the perfect tool for the pace and crush of mass transit; small, easy and discreet, and hell’s bells doing double exposures on camera phones is so much fun. I love Friday’s too, and if you were stuck in Friday commuter traffic then imagine having taken public transport instead. It might be a crush, but you could have read a Booker prize nomination, played plants vs zombies, or maybe, like Meredith, you could have taken some photographs.
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