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At least where I am the bus stop is never more than 30 minutes walking from wherever I want go. If I am visiting a suburb I am never in a rush and a 30 minute w

• ghaff 7y ago
  There's effectively no public transit out where I live. I mean, there's some sort of regional transit presumably for poor people who don't own cars but it's not really practical otherwise. The one time I looked on Google Maps, it would have taken me 4 hours to get into the city, including walking along a busy street with no sidewalks, to get to a bus to take a train. And this is about an hour drive.
  • Polylactic_acid 7y ago
    Stories like this make me feel that large chunks of the US are fundamentally broken. I just find it interesting that Americans assume that public transport is impossible rather than their current layout was designed purely for car transport and that it can be fixed.
    • ghaff 7y ago
      OTOH, the context is that, although I'm only about an hour drive from Boston, I live in a largely rural town in a property that's between an apple orchard and a christmas tree farm plus conservation land. (With easy driving, but not walking, distance from a commuter rail station.) I'm not sure why it would be the norm for me to have a frequent/easy public transit option or whether that would be the norm in most of Europe either. I actually can get into the city for 9-5 fairly easily by rail. Just not door to door.