Scenes From Public Transportation

Ghet-to Bus Stop

This bus stop is the nexus of a lot of routes and on the route [the 15] that extends from Downtown to all the way out to Saudi Aurora.

It traverses some of the seedier parts of East Colfax.

You know, the strip of ramshackle motels that support prostitutes and meth production.

It's always filthy, and everyone there always looks beleaguered, high, drunk, or suffering from some heinous health condition.

Last time I was on the 15, there was screaming babies, thugs, a barely breathing guy with emphysema and an oxygen tank, and my favorite, some junkie who was in between bouts of passing out with his fly wide open and pants falling down.

Needless to say I got off on an early stop.