{"id":737,"date":"2011-03-28T12:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-03-28T12:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:38:28","slug":"when-progress-isnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"When Progress Isn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Progress can set you back.<\/p>\n

As readers of the JuiceBar know, I travel a lot. Most of that travel is in and out of Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has flown in or out of Dulles likely has an opinion about the airport’s famous “people movers” … specially made buses that were originally designed to take passengers from the terminal directly to the plane but for the past ten years simply shuttled people to the next concourse.<\/p>\n

People movers were the things that everyone loved to hate.<\/p>\n

Everyone wanted a subway or train.\u00a0 Just like the other airports.\u00a0 So the folks at Dulles built one.\u00a0 A beautiful, shiny, open cavernous, glassy one.\u00a0 Wide open spaces.\u00a0 Smooth terrazzo floors.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Just one thing.\u00a0 To get to TSA you have to go down.\u00a0 Quite a ways down actually.\u00a0 The lines there are long.\u00a0 Then you need to walk.\u00a0 You need to walk a lot.\u00a0 If there were those guys in little carts, you’d want to hitch a ride with them.\u00a0 You need to walk a long way and then go down again.\u00a0 Way, way down.\u00a0 To the shiny, glassy, train station with the smooth, polished terrazzo floors.\u00a0 Now you need to wait.\u00a0 When the train comes, jump on quickly or you’ll miss it.\u00a0 While you’re on the train waiting to arrive at Concourse C, you should rest up.\u00a0 You can’t drink any water because they made you throw that away at the TSA line, so just conserve your energy.\u00a0 Because once you’ve gotten to the Concourse you’re going to be walking.\u00a0 And walking.\u00a0 And walking.\u00a0 And that is just to get to the elevator that takes you back to the surface.\u00a0 So you can walk some more to get to your actual gate.<\/p>\n

This is the progress that isn’t.\u00a0 It now takes me longer to get to the gate than before.\u00a0 Much longer.\u00a0 My only solace is that people now have to walk more so we get more exercise.\u00a0 Maybe that will help solve our obesity problem.\u00a0 Make every fly from Dulles.<\/p>\n

The fact is that you now walk as much going in and out of the ‘new’ transit system than you would if you just stepped through the main terminal and walked straight across the tarmac to the next Concourse.<\/p>\n

Now THAT would be progress.<\/p>\n

I’m seeing a lot of progress that isn’t these days.<\/p>\n

Scrambling for an electric outlet to enter something into an electrical device when writing it down with a pen and paper would do.\u00a0 Twenty-five clicks to get a calendar entry to synch with all 11 of my appointment books when just having an old DayTimer would do the same in a fraction of the time.<\/p>\n

Sometimes things get better for the worse.<\/p>\n

Sometimes progress isn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Progress can set you back. As readers of the JuiceBar know, I travel a lot. Most of that travel is in and out of Dulles Airport in Northern Virginia. Anyone who has flown in or out of Dulles likely has an opinion about the airport’s famous “people movers” … specially made buses that were originally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,1],"tags":[152,41,6,81,5,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}