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Right. When given the choice between carpooling, taking the bus, or driving alone, I choose to take the bus. The bus has advantages from both of the other optio

Right. When given the choice between carpooling, taking the bus, or driving alone, I choose to take the bus. The bus has advantages from both of the other options - its more flexible than carpooling, and it gets to use the HOV lanes that are unavailable for regular drivers. Rather than continuing to dump resources into a failed experiment (i.e. carpooling), urban planners should be working to increase the availability of mass transit.

adrianN 16y ago
Carpooling is just a crutch to migitate the effects of the abismal city planning that has happened in America during the last few decades. Building cities that are totally dependent on cars is just an aweful idea. From what I've heard it's hardly possible to do even such elementary things as grocery shopping without driving twenty minutes on each way.
- JoeAltmaier 16y ago
  Some of us actually carpool to save money, avoid driving every day, socialize, save the planet. Just a crutch?
  - foljs 16y ago
    Since you can save money better, save the planet better, and avoid driving better by using (a proper designed) public transport, yes, just a crutch.
  - quanticle 16y ago
    You could accomplish the same things via taking mass transit. Unfortunately, the layout of cities in the US (especially newer ones like Atlanta) makes having good mass transit nearly impossible due to lack of concentration.
    - JoeAltmaier 16y ago
      Mass transit? Kidding,right? I've had to use mass transit before, in my poor student days. Misery. Standing at rainy bus stops hoping the bus might come, half-hour connections, taking 2-3 hours out of my day for a 15-minute trip each way.
      - adrianN 16y ago
        So instead you just called your car pool?
khafra 16y ago
If I lived in a well-centralized city with functional mass transit, I'd take the bus from those options. Here in the sprawl of Tampa, though, there is no combination of busses which will get me to work before 8AM, and for many routes Google Maps shows that taking a bicycle is actually faster than taking the bus.

adrianN 16y ago

Carpooling is just a crutch to migitate the effects of the abismal city planning that has happened in America during the last few decades. Building cities that are totally dependent on cars is just an aweful idea. From what I've heard it's hardly possible to do even such elementary things as grocery shopping without driving twenty minutes on each way.

JoeAltmaier 16y ago
Some of us actually carpool to save money, avoid driving every day, socialize, save the planet. Just a crutch?
- foljs 16y ago
  Since you can save money better, save the planet better, and avoid driving better by using (a proper designed) public transport, yes, just a crutch.
- quanticle 16y ago
  You could accomplish the same things via taking mass transit. Unfortunately, the layout of cities in the US (especially newer ones like Atlanta) makes having good mass transit nearly impossible due to lack of concentration.
  - JoeAltmaier 16y ago
    Mass transit? Kidding,right? I've had to use mass transit before, in my poor student days. Misery. Standing at rainy bus stops hoping the bus might come, half-hour connections, taking 2-3 hours out of my day for a 15-minute trip each way.
    - adrianN 16y ago
      So instead you just called your car pool?

khafra 16y ago

If I lived in a well-centralized city with functional mass transit, I'd take the bus from those options. Here in the sprawl of Tampa, though, there is no combination of busses which will get me to work before 8AM, and for many routes Google Maps shows that taking a bicycle is actually faster than taking the bus.