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My commute time is fairly long, it's 76 minutes, and is about the same time in car. The thing is, public transit for me is more reliable, as I don't rely on s
by Kuinox 4y ago
My commute time is fairly long, it's 76 minutes, and is about the same time in car.
The thing is, public transit for me is more reliable, as I don't rely on specific hours, at peak hours you get your bus/train every 10-15 minutes at most and there is a metro every 3 minutes.
If there are issue on a line, there are apps that will route you away from it.
And the other big thing is, these 76 minutes are not lost, you can do something in this time, for me it's reading a lot on the net.
Now, if you want to do this commute in car, well it won't be good for your mental health, then the traffic will vary a lot, and can add 30-45mins at worst on your commute.
- decafninja 4y agoI commute about an hour into Manhattan, NYC, supposedly one of the few places in the US with decent public transit. It’s 50:50 odds that that hour is not only completely lost but spent in complete misery standing up and holding a tight pole on a swaying and swerving bus or train. In isolation I would much prefer to drive in, traffic and all. But it costs too much, and I know that’s not a realistically scalable solution for many reasons. But that I even wish I could is representative of just how much I hate NYC’s public transit system. Now I’m not a transit hater. I loved Seoul’s and Tokyo’s for example. But to get NYC’s transit, let alone any other American city’s transit to that level is completely impossible due to cultural and social reasons. And no - cars have little to do with those reasons.