(Evening) Red taillights of the many cars ahead - rain on the windshield wiped off from time to time with the windshield wipers. The progress is slow, but so long as the atmosphere inside the bus is okay/good and the people you're traveling with are agreeable, there's something enjoyable about road travel that is different from traveling on the rails. Pausing to wonder what exactly are the differences, one thing that glaringly stands out is the lack of over-lighting on the bus. The trains have about 20X more light than they need, so if you're not worried about looking weird, they're generally more comfortable to travel in wearing sunglasses... which perhaps should be renamed over-lighting-glasses?
(Morning) Looking at what I wrote yesterday - of course it depends on where you're sitting in a bus! I was at the front last night and so - naturally - there were no bright lights at the front as they would reflect off of the windscreen and interfere with the driver's vision. At the back however is a different story! As I write this, there is a slightly irritatingly bright bank of LED lights overhead - not as vastly over-bright as the massively over-bright lights on most trains now, but still. I suppose overly bright lights are a kind of anti-crime measure? I'm sure there are good reasons for them, but they are unpleasant for me nonetheless.
(Later the same morning) Now on a train... with exceptionally bright lighting. It doesn't seem to bother anyone to any obvious degree... but for me at least, train journeys would be more pleasant with about half as much light. Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon - www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/ - youtube.com/lylehsaxon - lylehsaxon.blogspot.jp/ - lookback1997.blogspot.jp/
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