this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Kinda hard to do when there's nowhere near enough investment in public transit
It's not actually about the transit; it's about the zoning. Both the reason we "need" transit in the first place and the reason it's too expensive per rider to be viable is that our homes and businesses are spread too far apart.
If you're not within easy walking distance of a grocery store, your town was built wrong.
That too, but it's not like transit investment isn't also lacking
"Just one more road, bro. I swear this time it'll work out, bro. Just one more lane in that 8-lane highway, bro"
Yeah where I live, there's a bus every 2 hours that needs ~30 minutes to get to where I work. If I took that, I'd have to walk an additional 15 minutes to my actual workplace and I'd still be an hour too early.
And after work, I'd have to again walk 15 minutes to the bus stop and wait another 30 minutes for the bus home.
So between leaving my house and coming back home, there'd be ~11.5 hours. When I use my car, that's ~9.5 hours.
My old job was located out of the city and the times I worked there were no busses running (4am til whenever we were done) so I drove ~30 minutes to work, then work between 12 to 14 hours then drive back, which can take between 30 minutes to an hour if there was an accident. Then only being able to sleep like 3 hours a night then repeat the process was torture.
I'm so glad I was able to get a remote job where now I actually have time during my work days to do other things like actually go to gym everyday and be able to see my family more rather than just work and sleep.
I literally cannot do either of these things. Haven’t ever been able to in my life. No town I have ever lived in had public transport available. Closest train station was literally a two hour walk away.
It’s a nice thought, but there isn’t enough infrastructure to play like it’s generally available.