Huh. My office is about 30 minutes walking too, but 5 minutes drive and about 15 by bus (only because there are literally 3 different routes that happen to run between a couple blocks from my house to a block from my work, so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply - I specifically live near bus lines always but they slashed the frequency) . I actually bike in every day unless it’s raining.
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marcos@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I live about 30 minutes walking from my workplace, that usually takes about 15 minutes by car (20 at rush hour).
It takes more than 90 minutes to get there by bus.
RBWells@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
marcos@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply
No, you misunderstood.
If I decide to go by bus, it will take more than 90 minutes of travel time. The wait time isn’t counted there. (I would need to take 2 buses, one is hourly, the other one is frequent.)
Before I started working from home, I used to walk.
RBWells@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Ah. For me the most direct possible route has car road, buses (yes three of them, and oddly, this only happens in a couple of places and home to work is one of them) and sidewalks, and the roads are 35mph ones so if pedestrians are on the sidewalk I take the bike in the road, if it’s clear I take the sidewalk.
Our old location, it was different - there was a way to walk between my kids school and the office, but no safe bike route and car had to go on the highway and loop around, the road didn’t exist, and house to work no way but car, it had a bus stop but only the bus to the next city passed it, and that one you have to board in downtown so I know what you are talking about. Even with the express bus between downtown and work it would have taken a couple of hours. And driving took between 10 minutes and 50 minutes depending on traffic (bus subject to same traffic) So glad they moved into the city.
gigachad@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Perfect bike route
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
30min walking is like 2km distance if walking pace is 4kmph, 3km if 6kmph. About 8min if you cycling.
marcos@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yes, it’s 3km.
Takes about 20 minutes on a bicycle because you can’t go through the same path. And it’s stressful.