Washington DC

I became really the fan of subways here. They have names like blue, yellow, orange and green going to four corners of the city. These lines have intersecting points. So you can travel from one corner to another corner seamlessly. There are ticketing machines to issue fare cards. The good thing is you don’t need exact change to buy the ticket. The farecard carries the total amount. you have to swipe your card at the time of entry and exit out of the station premises. The exit swipe will show the remaining balance on the card.  The ticket booths even accept credit cards too. This is good for people like me who don’t keep money or need bills for reimbursement. I haven’t seen how the delhi metro is operating. I did use the Metro in Taipei, Taiwan capital. I think that was also similar more or less to US.  One thing is for sure. Most of these asia pacific countries including philippines seem to follow in US steps which is good for them. 

Let’s go bit offline… In Philippines they have a bypass roads adjoining mainroads which now India is also seem to be following but not in true spirit.  In Philippines, there are proper entry and exit points from bypass road to the main expressway. The toll is based on the distance travelled. In my current city pune, they are making bypass roads adjoining Maubai-pune old Highway.  But traffice is stiill the same.  People can cross. No fencing on either side. There is no proper exit & entry points from main road to bypass road. Infact while taking those exits, if you are not careful you may be hit.  I will be consuming the whole pages if I start explaining the Great road widening work of Pune. 

When I look at the FBI building,  I wanted to go and meet those daring & dashing agents that we see in movies and read in Novels. I guess those guys woube out there on the field and not sitting in offices doing desk work. There is this white pillar known as Washington monument. They say from the top it one can have a fanatastic view of DC. Well I didn’t try this. Downtown DC had a china town with a big banner at the starting of this street. But all it has is some few shops. It is not as big as you see in SFO. Chinese makes their presence felt in almost all US cities with this china town. The Indian business men should think about it.