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From the article: "The buses that move out of Helsinki stay on the same line but only for a while, maybe a kilometer or two. Then they begin to separate, each n
by theoh 9y ago
From the article: "The buses that move out of Helsinki stay on the same line but only for a while, maybe a kilometer or two. Then they begin to separate, each number heading off to its own unique destination."
So Helsinki is an example, maybe not unique, of a bus station where it takes some time for (at least some of) the different numbered buses to diverge from a single route ("career trajectory").
- atombender 9y agoBut he's describing it in visual terms: "the Helsinki bus station makes a cool backdrop for Magnum wannabes". Here, "cool backdrop" implies that a lot of photographers shoot it because it looks cool. But I get the sense from the article overall that he's thinking of the bus stop in purely metaphorical terms, so the language is confusing.
- blahedo 9y agoThat's just an artful aside; he then brings us back to the real reason he's bringing it up, which is the transit system pattern rather than the station itself. (And, the transit system pattern is not uncommon but also not quite universal either, so he went with the specific example he knew of from where he was from, I'm guessing.)