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Depends on your circumstances. I live in Central Europe, a bit outside a major capital and commuting there for work. This is a place with excellent public tran
by nostromo123 4y ago
Depends on your circumstances. I live in Central Europe, a bit outside a major capital and commuting there for work. This is a place with excellent public transport by any measure (metro travels on time every 2-3 minutes during the day, for instance).
Total commute time in one direction: train + metro + walking 1.5h, car 0.5h.
At this point, even if public transport were offered to me for free, I would not use it. 3h of commute per day is just too much.
(Yeah, I could theoretically move closer to work... and what do I do when the workplace changes? move again?)
- katbyte 4y agoI’m curious, what’s the main contributor to the transit time? As you don’t break down how long the walking/metro/train each are
- amalgamated_inc 4y agoSwitching lines, waiting on connections, and coordinating, of course. This is true of all public transit systems, even the best ones. Unless you live directly at the source station and have a direct shot to your destination station, you're going to waste a lot of time changing buses/trains and waiting and coordinating. And not everybody can live near every transit hub, not even near _a_ transit hub, by definition. Cars are point-to-point. The very best public transit can do is match it in terms of pure speed. Public transport has a much higher bandwidth at the expense of individual travel time. It's a trade-off. Naturally there's a limit to how many cars can dive at any given time in any given city, but I'd definitely expect the average public transit time to be 2-5x the equivalent individual transportation (bicycle if possible/car) transit time.