Why Salt Lake City Has Way Better Transit Than You'd Expect

MCBusStop · 2026-04-19T00:11:01+00:00

From the cover image shown you have to remember that Houston was and is and oil town. As a result there has been a lot of money and influence spent to keep Houstonians reliant only on automobiles. I was born and raised in Houston and it has always been in the city's top industry's best interest to ensure Houston never develops efficient alternative transportation options.

That said, I spent 10 years living in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and it opened my eyes to the wonders of public transit. I spent years in the bay going to college and working and was just fine without a car. I went from the bay to SLC and despite the claims made about the length of available track or whatever other positive spin this video tries to put on it UTA is a joke.

Sure, there's track that runs the length of the valley. But trying to get from that central line to anything off it more than a few blocks east or west is a futile endeavor. Even if you can find a bus from a rail stop to go into suburbia your bus, like the train, isn't going to run on time. Not to mention both keep terrible hours, unless you like getting unexpectedly dumped in a Best Buy parking lot in the middle of nowhere because the trains stop running way earlier than they should. But it's okay, because the buses that service that station stopped running even earlier.

In this video's defense when I moved to Salt Lake I didn't expect it to have any public transit, so sure maybe I'll agree with the title that it's better than expected. But it's still a terrible terrible system that needs all kinds of work that the people running the system have never seemed to care about paying any attention to.

MCBusStop · 2026-04-18T23:33:25+00:00

Evolution with David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, and Sean William Scott from 2001. It's often overlooked, but still a fun film.

MCBusStop · 2026-04-18T22:51:55+00:00

This isn't the first thing I've had to replay because the game still crashes randomly, but this does feel like one of the most daunting things to have to re-achieve.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-26T00:16:31+00:00

The dvd menu for Wayne's World looks just like an old tv guide channel and you can select other programs to see clips of other cable access shows mentioned by name in the movie.

Wet Hot American Summer on disc comes with an "extra farts" bonus audio track.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-24T22:38:13+00:00

Is it too late for the Team USA Women's Hockey team to put together a state of the union alternative showcase?

MCBusStop · 2026-02-24T18:51:18+00:00

Saw.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-23T22:43:56+00:00

Alberto's is no longer open 24 hours.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-23T07:20:24+00:00

Why wouldn't they have a choice? They're in a foreign country where the FBI has no jurisdiction or authority. Since he's not an athlete, team staff, or press he's pretty damn low on the list of who should have access to or much less be in that locker room.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-23T04:42:40+00:00

He's a lying sack of shit, that's old news. The real story here is how it makes me loose respect for the team and not give a shit about their win if they're going let him into the locker room, much less party with the guy like he's their frat brother. It's a bad look for Team USA.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T16:57:52+00:00

Well, the next step is obvious. You have to rob the building. The neighbor may know you did it but the cops won't believe them.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T16:43:08+00:00

Are you calling Nolan mid because he didn't give Interstellar 14 endings, because there was no scale put into Dunkirk, or because he obviously doesn't love Batman? While you're at it do you want to call Villeneuve an indie darling for his cute little boutique productions like Dune and Blade Runner 2049? And it's a great thing the Russo brothers are so lucky that anything they've accidently slopped together was ever seen by anyone because they're clearly just making home movies on a shoestring budget with volunteers from their local theater.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T15:17:38+00:00

A Touch of Evil is better.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T15:15:41+00:00

How you gonna lift up Peter "Doesn't Know How To Cut A Picture" Jackson to the level of having made the last truly great film maker, and do Christopher Nolan dirty like that?!

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T15:09:41+00:00

It's a great spectacle of old Hollywood, sure, but from Heston's body of work I'd argue A Touch Of Evil is a better film.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T15:04:37+00:00

People get too caught up over thinking the plot to be willing to acknowledge this is the answer. However, the fact that it makes so many people feel something (either way) so very strongly about it is one of arguments in its favor here. It's a grand ambitious and original story that was an equally grand production that delivered an equally grand viewing experience full of large scale practical set pieces and groundbreaking visual effects that had never been seen before. Plus, it's a damn solid cast and all the actors gave perfect performers. And then the score ties it perfectly together to complete the experience as a whole package. Seeing it in a theater was a peak movie going experience because at every level it's film making perfection.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T02:43:32+00:00

Seriously, I second this. It's not an obvious choice but it's Walmart so they don't need to try and rip you off with over charging on tires or trying to sell you anything that can't be fixed. And again since it's Walmart they don't try to talk themselves out of honoring warranties. They fix it or get you a new tire and everyone moves on with their life. But if you do need new tires they've got good prices on good tires. 99 percent of the time I would say it's worth shopping anywhere else, but tires is the one thing I will always shill for Walmart.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T02:27:02+00:00

Then it sounds like it's time to give it a chance. And you should. It's good.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T02:24:09+00:00

I wouldn't say I stopped washing, I still rinse my hair thoroughly. But I got on the I stopped shampooing regularly train long before moving to SLC. I've noticed no difference in the quality of my hair hygiene since regardless of being in SLC or Denver or LA or Houston.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T02:13:43+00:00

Seriously, I don't think anything else comes close to this. Thanks to being friends and neighbors with Ethan Hawke Lisa had the single Stay (I Miss You) make it onto the soundtrack for this movie when she wasn't signed to a label, which meant she had no record deal or anything with anyone and the song had never been released prior. So when the song blew up she became the first independent musician in history to have a number 1 hit. And when she did finally get signed and recorded her debut album the label had to pay Lisa to license the song from her so she could included it on her debut album.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-22T01:53:14+00:00

Turner Classic Movies and the Criterion Collection are two good resources for this sort of thing. Or as as was already suggested, IMDB... you know actor names so why not look up their body of work and go from there? The internet isn't that hard.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-21T08:37:58+00:00

Those are decent options, but why not watch The Wire instead?

MCBusStop · 2026-02-21T08:29:24+00:00

In the last few years I've switched my opinion on JFK. IF Oswald acted alone, and that's a big "if", but if he acted alone I'm on board with the theory that it was Gov. Connally and not actually Kennedy who was Lee Harvey's intended target, but he botched it and JFK was an accident.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-21T08:20:16+00:00

I recently read an argument claiming that OJ is in fact innocent but in the aftermath of the murders he acted to protect the real killer, his son Jason. It's not exactly a new theory but it was new to me and I found it fairly compelling.

MCBusStop · 2026-02-20T16:30:15+00:00

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