I almost had jury duty a while back so I thought I might take public transit to that. Car trip is 25-30 minutes. Public is 2.5 hours and I would arrive 45 minutes before the courthouse opened.
American public transit
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bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
This is why we need better public transit. Sure, there’ll always be some inefficiancies, but in quite a few countries public transit is a very reasonable option
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Sorry, car dealers are major contributors to sales taxes so the best I can do is one more lane, bro
sundray@lemmus.org 9 hours ago
All we need is to figure out how to have public transit generate accelerating, double-digit profit growth year-on-year, so that VCs all start bankrolling public transit startups, and then all our transit problems will be solved! /s
SippyCup@lemmy.ml 20 minutes ago
If you find a way to link public transit to the further oppression of brown people or the extraction of oil, you’d get it in every city in America within 5 years.
ckmnstr@lemmy.world 41 minutes ago
I can’t believe you didn’t use the word “disrupt”. Huge No-No. Why would I fund something that doesn’t explicitly disrupt the public transportation space?
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 26 minutes ago
Just use AI to disrupt public transportation space! On the blockchain!
TheThrillOfTime@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
What we really need to do is figure out how to make public transit profitable to the automobile lobby.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
The thing is it can be quite profitable for the biggest possible VC firm out there. The government.
The Interstate System spurned so much economic growth and thereby new tax revenue. Weve just pissed it away on stupid shit and have failed to maintain critical bridges and things like that.
bryndos@fedia.io 4 hours ago
Yes, they just have to "run it at a loss". Instead of trying to drive up the fares trying to reach "profitable" levels.
A lot of the savings should come from reduced road deterioration and lower road maintenance costs.
frog@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
Living in NYC, I had to go to downtown from uptown everyday.
Train: under 20 minutes.
Bus: over an hour.
The cool thing was I could use the same MetroCard for both. Sometimes I would take the bus because the scenery is nice to look at, or I wanted to read a book.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 9 hours ago
Nowadays I think you just tap any debit/credit card on the new system for NYC
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
30-45 minute drive to work, depending on traffic. Bus would be 3.5 hours. No trains.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
I’m almost 40 and I’ve spent about 9 months during which there was public transport between me and my job, and I probably could have walked from Holt ave to Lewis street faster than the GTA bus.
marcos@lemmy.world 13 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.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
30min walking is like 2km distance if walking pace is 4kmph, 3km if 6kmph. About 8min if you cycling.
marcos@lemmy.world 11 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.
RBWells@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
marcos@lemmy.world 11 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.
gigachad@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Perfect bike route
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The bus doesn’t even stop in my town anymore.
gamenac@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Living in a bigger Florida city for a while, I realized the bus system was not for me. Besides way less than stellar routing to get from point A to point 1 to point H to point L to point B, they changed how they handled pricing more than a few times while I was there. Add the fact that even by car you’re looking at about 30 minutes time, and who knows how long for the bus, made me a diehard cyclist. Most trips were comparable to driving with the added benefits that cycling has. Unfortunately there is almost no incentive for cities to upgrade public transport that enough people will get behind, even if it makes the most sense.
NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Jokes on you the GTA 's (Greater Toronto areas) public transit system is like this too! 🤩 I hate it here
BlackVenom@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Torontos system def needs work, but it’s by far better than most. Presumably it really falls apart outside of downtown though. Driving is for sure hell… You’d think it’d be easier to at least convince people to bump public trans to make room on the expressway.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I mean…to be fair, the people I’ve met from Toronto are always the most selfish self entitled main character syndrome assholes I run into. It’s like Canadas version of Chicago. I’m honestly surprised Toronto doesn’t have some common food that they try to be “famous” for. Chicago deep dish isn’t pizza, it’s lasagna cosplaying as pizza. I could eat pizza every day. I could only eat Chicago style once a year or so.
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
Yeah if u r outside of major street or subway, good luck. Streetcars are often slower than running lmao
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 14 minutes ago
Just one more lane bro. And remove the bicycle lanes. That’ll fix everything.