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You’re forgetting about the subdivisions. The house where I grew up was about an hour walk through the woods and up many hills from the nearest bus stop, which

You’re forgetting about the subdivisions. The house where I grew up was about an hour walk through the woods and up many hills from the nearest bus stop, which would take you downtown but to neither of my parents jobs. By car it was just ten minutes to downtown. Where my dad worked was across from some hotels, and the bus dependent workers there had to run across a six lane highway with no crosswalk then walk along another one with no sidewalks for a mile to reach a bus depot. Also, bus systems are barely functional right now due to labor shortage. The college town where I am now has a very good (for the South) free bus system, but it’s a tiny town with no suburbs and they are constant cutting service, missing routes, etc due to driver shortage. Not to mention—if people can’t, or won’t, take the bus to places other than work, retail and service jobs evaporate overnight.

dragontamer 5y ago
Where did I make the claim that you need to sell your car and go bus-only? You can drive your car to the bus that drives to your work. The reverse trip (work -> bus -> car -> home) works out the same way. This model gets you with only one transfer, and your car only partially drives to work, cutting down on your gasoline usage significantly. Its pretty much how a lot of people I know use the rail / subway stations too. Especially because parking outside the city is far cheaper (usually free) than parking inside the city, so you end up saving significantly on parking prices (even if you spend part of that on subway tickets). --------- Bonus points: a lot of these "transit hubs" (where many bus-lines meet) are in locations with ample parking and many different bus lines. This makes it feasible to carpool to a transit hub, instead of carpooling to work (my neighbors don't go to my job, but there is a chance that my neighbors will benefit from a carpool to the same transit hub)
- FeepingCreature 5y ago
  I strongly doubt that bus stations have enough parking lot capacity for this model. Ample parking is not scaled to the model where this location has to hold everybody's car while they're at work.
  - dragontamer 5y ago
    Looking at the bus-routes in my area, they include at least one shopping malls as a "transit hubs" with excess free parking available. That's how I made my bus plan. Home -> parking lot (mall) -> bus -> work.

dragontamer 5y ago

Where did I make the claim that you need to sell your car and go bus-only? You can drive your car to the bus that drives to your work. The reverse trip (work -> bus -> car -> home) works out the same way. This model gets you with only one transfer, and your car only partially drives to work, cutting down on your gasoline usage significantly. Its pretty much how a lot of people I know use the rail / subway stations too. Especially because parking outside the city is far cheaper (usually free) than parking inside the city, so you end up saving significantly on parking prices (even if you spend part of that on subway tickets). --------- Bonus points: a lot of these "transit hubs" (where many bus-lines meet) are in locations with ample parking and many different bus lines. This makes it feasible to carpool to a transit hub, instead of carpooling to work (my neighbors don't go to my job, but there is a chance that my neighbors will benefit from a carpool to the same transit hub)

FeepingCreature 5y ago
I strongly doubt that bus stations have enough parking lot capacity for this model. Ample parking is not scaled to the model where this location has to hold everybody's car while they're at work.
- dragontamer 5y ago
  Looking at the bus-routes in my area, they include at least one shopping malls as a "transit hubs" with excess free parking available. That's how I made my bus plan. Home -> parking lot (mall) -> bus -> work.