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Liverpool Street station to LHR terminal 2, tomorrow afternoon at 1630. Car gives up to 2hr, train gives 46min. Abbey wood to LHR, up to 2h40 by car or 1h02 b
by jddj 1y ago
Liverpool Street station to LHR terminal 2, tomorrow afternoon at 1630.
Car gives up to 2hr, train gives 46min.
Abbey wood to LHR, up to 2h40 by car or 1h02 by train
- josephcsible 1y ago46 minutes is a lot more than 20 minutes, and "up to 2hr" is doing a lot of work since Google says "typically 1-2 hr". And isn't London the city that instituted the ridiculous 20mph speed limit? So even if the 2 hours vs. 20 minutes were true there, I'd put London in the "artificially slow down cars" category.
- jddj 1y agoIt's too bad they don't give an estimate for how long it would be if the 4 million tube journeys per day were cars on the street.
- mlyle 1y agoIndividuals don't make that choice, though. Individuals consider the transit modes available to them, and don't consider the externality of slightly delaying everyone else if they take a car.
- queenkjuul 1y agoThe average speed on the Kennedy in Chicago at rush hour very well might be less than 20mph. It's taken me a full 75min to go 7 miles, the bulk of which was "expressway" The train gets me home in an hour, every time. I could bike and save even more time. Cars just don't move fast in cities.