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There is no public transportation that can bring me home after saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a litt

There is no public transportation that can bring me home after saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a little town. There is no such public transportation even during the day unless I want to spend 2 to 3 hours on a mix of metro, train and bus. And I don't have many choices about the time to leave. You could say that it's flawed to live in the countryside and/or have distant friends but my point is that public transportation on fixed lines will never reach every place at every time, especially where people are spread thinly. Taxis can do that, self driving cars can maybe drive their cost down. I could do without my own car if I could summon a public transport car at a whim anywhere I am to go anywhere I want.

eloisius 3y ago
There isn’t in the US, dominated by urban design built for cars, but in many societies it’s entirely possible to have drinks until late and then safely get home via transit.
- matthewfelgate 3y ago
  In some areas of some countries.
- ghaff 3y ago
  >saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a little town I doubt there are a lot of places where you're replacing that scenario with public transit.
  - tsukikage 3y ago
    ...but it's certainly feasible. I've been on the 1am to Abergavenny from Cardiff, and no-one on that train is in any state to drive.
  - School-Cotton 3y ago
    At least in New York you could make this work if your little town is on a metro north line. The last trains do leave after 1 AM I believe.
    - ghaff 3y ago
      NYC is not exactly typical although I'm sure there are other one-off examples per the comments, especially if you relax the constraints to 11pm or so. But I'm not sure it's terribly common most places to take a late train to a small town and get home from there without driving from the train station. I think my last commuter rail is around 10:30pm but I'd have little confidence that I could get a taxi/Uber from the train station; it's not that far but certainly not safely walkable especially late at night.
      - Symbiote 3y ago
        It's common surrounding larger cities in many countries. The trains from about 23.00 to about 01.00 in Copenhagen are busy with people going home to the suburbs and beyond. Picking some random village I've never been to, from Copenhagen to Uggeløse (population around 2000) takes 65 minutes, the last connection to the bus requires leaving Copenhagen at 23:16. Picking some other village that's on a railway line (Veksø, population 1800), the trains run all night every 30 minutes on Friday and Saturday nights. On other days the last train is at 00:30-ish. The original claim was from a city to a town, which is easier than either of these examples.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  No there isnt. You didn’t even read the comment and jumped to a political attack on the US out of habit which is very common from the types that vehemently support public transit
itsoktocry 3y ago
>There is no public transportation that can bring me home after saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a little town. There's a class of "ban cars" city people who cannot fathom this.
- mlrtime 3y ago
  The ban cars (or fuckcars) is a cult in itself thinking that everyone in the world needs to live in a Amsterdam or Barcelona type city. Similar to OPs comment, they should just be ignored mostly as trolls because they offer no actual argument other than "cars bad". Your preference for where and how to live or inconsequential to their goal of removing cars from earth.
- badpun 3y ago
  The solution is simple - don't come back at 1 am, or if you absolutely have to, either move closer to your friends, or come back via a taxi.
tsukikage 3y ago
> saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home Note that this solution would also constrain me to a life of teetotal evenings enviously watching my friends share a few pints.

eloisius 3y ago

There isn’t in the US, dominated by urban design built for cars, but in many societies it’s entirely possible to have drinks until late and then safely get home via transit.

matthewfelgate 3y ago
In some areas of some countries.
ghaff 3y ago
>saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a little town I doubt there are a lot of places where you're replacing that scenario with public transit.
- tsukikage 3y ago
  ...but it's certainly feasible. I've been on the 1am to Abergavenny from Cardiff, and no-one on that train is in any state to drive.
- School-Cotton 3y ago
  At least in New York you could make this work if your little town is on a metro north line. The last trains do leave after 1 AM I believe.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    NYC is not exactly typical although I'm sure there are other one-off examples per the comments, especially if you relax the constraints to 11pm or so. But I'm not sure it's terribly common most places to take a late train to a small town and get home from there without driving from the train station. I think my last commuter rail is around 10:30pm but I'd have little confidence that I could get a taxi/Uber from the train station; it's not that far but certainly not safely walkable especially late at night.
    - Symbiote 3y ago
      It's common surrounding larger cities in many countries. The trains from about 23.00 to about 01.00 in Copenhagen are busy with people going home to the suburbs and beyond. Picking some random village I've never been to, from Copenhagen to Uggeløse (population around 2000) takes 65 minutes, the last connection to the bus requires leaving Copenhagen at 23:16. Picking some other village that's on a railway line (Veksø, population 1800), the trains run all night every 30 minutes on Friday and Saturday nights. On other days the last train is at 00:30-ish. The original claim was from a city to a town, which is easier than either of these examples.
edgyquant 3y ago
No there isnt. You didn’t even read the comment and jumped to a political attack on the US out of habit which is very common from the types that vehemently support public transit

itsoktocry 3y ago

>There is no public transportation that can bring me home after saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home in a little town. There's a class of "ban cars" city people who cannot fathom this.

mlrtime 3y ago
The ban cars (or fuckcars) is a cult in itself thinking that everyone in the world needs to live in a Amsterdam or Barcelona type city. Similar to OPs comment, they should just be ignored mostly as trolls because they offer no actual argument other than "cars bad". Your preference for where and how to live or inconsequential to their goal of removing cars from earth.
badpun 3y ago
The solution is simple - don't come back at 1 am, or if you absolutely have to, either move closer to your friends, or come back via a taxi.

tsukikage 3y ago

> saying goodbye to friends at 1 AM in a big city and having to drive one hour to my home Note that this solution would also constrain me to a life of teetotal evenings enviously watching my friends share a few pints.