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How does 2x40min add up to three hours?
by nsgi 9y ago
How does 2x40min add up to three hours?
- islanderfun 9y ago40min with good traffic?
- Dreami 9y agoMaybe he/she's having lunch at home
- dijit 9y agoPublic transport? I used to go to college less than 30 minutes drive away, but I did not have a license or money to drive (Europe) and public transport took 3h in real terms to do that journey. Sometimes it is not economical to have a car (lack of parking, excessive costs etc;)
- mikewhy 9y agoDo people really measure their commute time using a method of transportation they don't use?
- dijit 9y agoAmericans I've met have certainly done this. Americans tend to measure distance in "time" which doesn't work when you're dealing with alternative transport methods. For instance someone told me the Philadelphia is "just 3 hours away, so it can't be that far" when I asked him how long it took by train. (it took 5hours in the end)
- dsr_ 9y agoAmericans frequently cite long distances by time: the assumption is that you are taking a car and that the traffic is whatever they perceive as normal. For very long distances, this correlates to 50-60 miles per hour. For trips inside an urban area, it's rarely accurate to the nearest 10 minutes.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoWow, some pretty extreme disconnect. 30min of driving vs 3h of public transportation? What was the route? In European cities, I'm used to at most 2x the difference, and sometimes it's actually faster with the public transport, if you work in a city centre and go there with a tram (which mostly avoids traffic). Also, even if public transport takes ~2x the time of a drive, I still prefer it. That 1h / day in a car as a driver is completely wasted, while the 2h / day in a bus is something I can (and do) use to read books/articles, answer e-mails, etc. I try to schedule my day so that anything I can do on a bus I'll do on a bus.
- dijit 9y agoIf you're seriously curious it was a bus route between Coventry and Sutton Coldfield in the UK. By car it can take as little as 20 minutes, especially due to a toll motorway which never has traffic. By bus you must take a 1.5hour bus into Birmingham city center (the bus number 900, goes via the airport), go across the city center on foot (20 minutes) usually wait 10-20 minutes for a 40 minute bus ride (940) into Sutton Coldfield.
- fredley 9y agoIt doesn't, I double doubled, instead of just doubled it. Thanks for pointing it out!