Emin\u00f6n\u00fc ferry pier, 6 pm, Tuesday.
\nPeople have done their work for the day and are running to catch the ferry to the Asian side, Kad\u0131k\u00f6y.<\/p>\n
Meri\u00e7 \u00d6ner writes about Akbil (the ‘smart ticket’, a small keychain-like magnet that can be used to pay trip fares at ferries, buses, metros, trains, the ‘t\u00fcnel’, funicular, tram, you name it, in Istanbul) in the book \u0130stanbulla\u015fmak<\/i> (eds. Dervi\u015f, Tanju, Tanyeli: Garanti Galeri 2009) that there are all kind of things one can know about the one using the akbil by listening to the electronic notes it plays when used. The A – E interwal (‘first trip of the day’), the B – A sharp – B – C sharp (‘s\/he is a transfer passanger), the B – E – A sharp – B – E – A sharp (‘damn! Must get in the line… my akbil has dried out’).<\/p>\n
All this akbil powered human traffic turns the piers and stops into places of electric symphonies. But \u00d6ner points out that the most intimiating sound of akbil is the silence when one searches for the pockets of ones bag and just doesn’t… now where is it!!??<\/p>\n
Listen to the Emin\u00f6n\u00fc pier:
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