I’m really not happy with the train right now. Monday I got back to my car after work to a warning that I was parked illegally, which I was. Hurst-Bell station doesn’t have enough parking. It never has. Every day there are 10-15 cars parked in not-parking-spaces because there’s no where else to park. The lot is full before 8AM every single day and was long before gas hit $4/gallon and a bunch of new people started riding the train. No one parks in a fire lane or blocks anyone else in, we just all park at the ends of rows next to the curb islands and anywhere else out of the way. The parking lot is landlocked between the tracks, Bell Helicopter, Bell’s parking lot (which has a big sign identifying it for employees and visitors of Bell only) and (what I assume is protected) marshland, so it’s not like they can even expand it to add more parking unless they build a garage.

I drove to work yesterday because I was running late, but I got an earlier start today got my coffee and drove to the train station. As expected there wasn’t a single parking space, so - not wanting to get my car towed or booted - I headed for Centerport which is the next station down the line. Have I mentioned it was pouring down rain this morning? I got about halfway to Centerport on Trinity and got rear-ended and thrown into a telephone pole. I’m fine. My car is not. Trinity is a very bad road to be on in the rain. There were no less than seven wrecks (counting mine)  on that quarter mile of road in the two hours I was out there. There is no such thing as a safe speed on it when it is wet. My wreck was the worst of them, everyone else pretty much checked bumpers, traded insurance and drove off, including (after about an hour or so) the guy who hit me.

I hate 2008.