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Not in the bay area.

by tedivm 3y ago

CogitoCogito 3y ago
> Not in the bay area. The article is about a $52 fare for a 3-mile ride in NYC...
- BizarroLand 3y ago
  I would walk in the thundering rain or snow before I would pay $52 to travel 3 miles. At my normal sedate walking speed that is $52 an hour to take in some scenery.
  - goalonetwo 3y ago
    yeah, that's what I'm doing now as well. A couple days ago from one part of SF to another: - Uber: 2 Miles, 25$, 16 minutes (doesn't include the subtle lying on waiting time). - Walking: 2 Miles, 0$, 30 minutes, healthier.
  - jrockway 3y ago
    I did this once. I landed in Newark at 12am on a rainy night. Ubers were about $300 to Brooklyn with a 60 minute wait, and my phone was about dead. So, I took the AirTrain. The AirTrain doesn't go to the terminal I arrived at, so I walked through an empty parking garage, then outside in the rain for a while, then finally to the AirTrain station with all the lights off. Trains were running though! In sections. At each station between this one and the commuter rail station, you had to switch trains. Eventually I arrived at the EWR NJT station, and the machine wouldn't take my credit card. I tried another one and it worked. Eventually I got on a train to Penn Station that ... just stopped for 20 minutes for no reason. Penn Station was closing down when I arrived, and myself and another passenger got "locked in" to the gated-off corridor between NJT and the 7th Ave line. The gates weren't locked, though, so we opened them and pressed on to find the subway. The 2/3 of course runs local at this hour and at 30 minute frequencies. I definitely waited all 30 minutes, and then enjoyed the speedy trip downtown stopping at 27th St, 23rd St, 18th St, 14th St, Christopher St, Houston St, Canal St, Franklin St, Chambers St, Fulton St, Wall St, Clark St, and finally getting off at 2:30AM into the pouring rain at Boro Hall. It was well worth saving the $290. (I normally fly into JFK and take the LIRR to Brooklyn. I didn't do that this time because my employer insisted that I fly into SJC instead of SFO to save on taxi fare. AA would only sell EWR-DFW-SJC and not JFK-DFW-SJC. Never again. When I worked for Google I flew business class from JFK-SFO with a fully-flat bed! Then took Caltain down to Mountain View.)
- tedivm 3y ago
  And you think this problem is somehow restricted to just NYC? The prices in the bay area for uber/lyft are about the same.
  - CogitoCogito 3y ago
    i honestly don’t know what your point is. There is also cheap public transportation in the Bay Area. Is it as cheap and good as NYC? No. Do I personally still choose it over Uber and Lyft while in the Bay Area? Yes. Anyway the original poster was clearly pointing out that public transportation in NYC is a reasonable alternative to Uber in NYC. Your bringing up the Bay Area is about as appropriate as my bringing up Prague where I live. Both are irrelevant.

Not in the bay area.

by tedivm 3y ago

Not in the bay area.

CogitoCogito 3y ago

> Not in the bay area. The article is about a $52 fare for a 3-mile ride in NYC...

BizarroLand 3y ago
I would walk in the thundering rain or snow before I would pay $52 to travel 3 miles. At my normal sedate walking speed that is $52 an hour to take in some scenery.
- goalonetwo 3y ago
  yeah, that's what I'm doing now as well. A couple days ago from one part of SF to another: - Uber: 2 Miles, 25$, 16 minutes (doesn't include the subtle lying on waiting time). - Walking: 2 Miles, 0$, 30 minutes, healthier.
- jrockway 3y ago
  I did this once. I landed in Newark at 12am on a rainy night. Ubers were about $300 to Brooklyn with a 60 minute wait, and my phone was about dead. So, I took the AirTrain. The AirTrain doesn't go to the terminal I arrived at, so I walked through an empty parking garage, then outside in the rain for a while, then finally to the AirTrain station with all the lights off. Trains were running though! In sections. At each station between this one and the commuter rail station, you had to switch trains. Eventually I arrived at the EWR NJT station, and the machine wouldn't take my credit card. I tried another one and it worked. Eventually I got on a train to Penn Station that ... just stopped for 20 minutes for no reason. Penn Station was closing down when I arrived, and myself and another passenger got "locked in" to the gated-off corridor between NJT and the 7th Ave line. The gates weren't locked, though, so we opened them and pressed on to find the subway. The 2/3 of course runs local at this hour and at 30 minute frequencies. I definitely waited all 30 minutes, and then enjoyed the speedy trip downtown stopping at 27th St, 23rd St, 18th St, 14th St, Christopher St, Houston St, Canal St, Franklin St, Chambers St, Fulton St, Wall St, Clark St, and finally getting off at 2:30AM into the pouring rain at Boro Hall. It was well worth saving the $290. (I normally fly into JFK and take the LIRR to Brooklyn. I didn't do that this time because my employer insisted that I fly into SJC instead of SFO to save on taxi fare. AA would only sell EWR-DFW-SJC and not JFK-DFW-SJC. Never again. When I worked for Google I flew business class from JFK-SFO with a fully-flat bed! Then took Caltain down to Mountain View.)
tedivm 3y ago
And you think this problem is somehow restricted to just NYC? The prices in the bay area for uber/lyft are about the same.
- CogitoCogito 3y ago
  i honestly don’t know what your point is. There is also cheap public transportation in the Bay Area. Is it as cheap and good as NYC? No. Do I personally still choose it over Uber and Lyft while in the Bay Area? Yes. Anyway the original poster was clearly pointing out that public transportation in NYC is a reasonable alternative to Uber in NYC. Your bringing up the Bay Area is about as appropriate as my bringing up Prague where I live. Both are irrelevant.