Istanbul's Mass Transit Spokes-Dog

türkçe links to original Turkish article

(Hürriyet Newspaper, 20 August 2021)

                                         "Tickets please!"

A Twitter user shared a picture of a dog riding on the Istanbul tram. 

Responding tweets then flooded in with pictures of the same dog (!) 

on a ferry, Marmaray (trans-Bosphorus metro), metro and Metrobüs.

The Istanbul street dog boarded the Bağcılar-Kabataş tram at the 

Tophane stop.  Passengers and a security guard tried to get the dog

off the tram but without success.  The guard asked the passengers:

"Is anyone upset by the dog being on the tram? The next stop is the

last stop anyway."  When no one objected, the dog continued on and

disembarked at Kabataş.

                                             "What?"

                                   

The dog then headed for the ferry pier and boarded the ferry to

Kadıköy (!).  After the tram photo of the dog was shared on Twitter,

tens of people shared photos of the same dog riding on the ferries,

metro trains, and buses.

 

                                     Love the earrings!

                                         Easy rider.