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There is a river in between. You would need to bike up to the George Washington assuming he lives in Hoboken and commute to Midtown. Either way you go from a 45

There is a river in between. You would need to bike up to the George Washington assuming he lives in Hoboken and commute to Midtown. Either way you go from a 45 minute commute to maybe a 2-3 hour commute if you are lucky. Even worse since now using a bike his commute is ~20 miles instead of the 4 in the first place.

mertd 14y ago
Excuses... I don't even live in NYC and yet it took me 1 minute to find a better option: take the ferry (bikes are allowed). http://goo.gl/maps/ssB0 http://goo.gl/maps/ssB0. I bet on a good day you can cycle this route under 30 minutes including the ferry ride.
- melling 14y ago
  That'll cost 3x more than the bus, and it doesn't scale. http://www.nywaterway.com/hoboken14throute.aspx http://www.nywaterway.com/hoboken14throute.aspx There are hundreds of thousands of people who cross the river every day. Thanks for taking 1 minute. Can anyone solve the real problem?
  - mertd 14y ago
    Monthly bike pass is surely cheaper or comparable to whatever he is paying for parking. I solved his problem.
    - iwejfweoifjweif 14y ago
      If its only taking him 45 minutes he's probably not driving in and parking, he's probably taking mass transit on a system that is quite overloaded. So no, you didn't solve his problem, but nice try.
    - melling 14y ago
      You are responding to me, the person whose problem you think you solved. I take a bus that costs $98/month. The ferry is over $300 for a monthly pass. If I want to take the ferry tomorrow, with my bike, for example, it'll be about $20 for a daily round trip. My best option would be to taking a folding bike so I can take a train. That would work on nice days. However, what I'm really asking for is to solve the problem for the millions of commuters. It's crazy that people waste so much time commuting.
      - krschultz 14y ago
        I did the NJ->NYC commute for a couple of years (Parsippany->Soho, 1.5 hours door to door). It was pretty awful. I'm really glad our governor nixed the idea of building another tunnel.
      - DanBC 14y ago
        Cycling does not work for you because of your weird river situation. Cycling is a solution for the millions of people who have commutes of 4 miles without rivers in between. It's a solution for most people in most other situations.

mertd 14y ago

Excuses... I don't even live in NYC and yet it took me 1 minute to find a better option: take the ferry (bikes are allowed). http://goo.gl/maps/ssB0 http://goo.gl/maps/ssB0. I bet on a good day you can cycle this route under 30 minutes including the ferry ride.

melling 14y ago
That'll cost 3x more than the bus, and it doesn't scale. http://www.nywaterway.com/hoboken14throute.aspx http://www.nywaterway.com/hoboken14throute.aspx There are hundreds of thousands of people who cross the river every day. Thanks for taking 1 minute. Can anyone solve the real problem?
- mertd 14y ago
  Monthly bike pass is surely cheaper or comparable to whatever he is paying for parking. I solved his problem.
  - iwejfweoifjweif 14y ago
    If its only taking him 45 minutes he's probably not driving in and parking, he's probably taking mass transit on a system that is quite overloaded. So no, you didn't solve his problem, but nice try.
  - melling 14y ago
    You are responding to me, the person whose problem you think you solved. I take a bus that costs $98/month. The ferry is over $300 for a monthly pass. If I want to take the ferry tomorrow, with my bike, for example, it'll be about $20 for a daily round trip. My best option would be to taking a folding bike so I can take a train. That would work on nice days. However, what I'm really asking for is to solve the problem for the millions of commuters. It's crazy that people waste so much time commuting.
    - krschultz 14y ago
      I did the NJ->NYC commute for a couple of years (Parsippany->Soho, 1.5 hours door to door). It was pretty awful. I'm really glad our governor nixed the idea of building another tunnel.
    - DanBC 14y ago
      Cycling does not work for you because of your weird river situation. Cycling is a solution for the millions of people who have commutes of 4 miles without rivers in between. It's a solution for most people in most other situations.