Not a commute, but fwiw: My freshman college dorm was across the street from kayak club storage, and a block from a river dock. Supermarket was two busses plus

Not a commute, but fwiw: My freshman college dorm was across the street from kayak club storage, and a block from a river dock. Supermarket was two busses plus several blocks walking... but across the street from a river park. The river being one side of a bus-bus-river triangle. I needed paddling time anyway, so picture a kayak with a row of inflated garbage bags towed like ducklings.