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Of course, you also have to take into account the cost of the bus, whether you have a bus pass/travelcard, proximity of stops at either end to required start po
by jlees 17y ago
Of course, you also have to take into account the cost of the bus, whether you have a bus pass/travelcard, proximity of stops at either end to required start point and destination, and whether or not you can stop on the way (if you're walking) and get a Starbucks.
For all these reasons, plus the usual carbon footprint and travelcard, I don't take the bus anywhere unless it's more than an hour's walk. (Before I moved to Edinburgh I hated, hated hated hated, walking. Selling one's car does fantastic things to the mindset.)
Still. It's a pretty graph!
- jrockway 17y agoWow, an hour walk! I bike or take the bus or train for anything more than a mile. Walking is very boring. (I have never owned a car either.) BTW, Chicagoans are lucky to have estimated arrival times for every bus stop in the city (http://ctabustracker.com/ http://ctabustracker.com/). It is very accurate and makes deciding between walking and waiting for the bus an easy decision. (Usually I commit to taking the bus and just sit in my apartment until a few minutes before it is scheduled to arrive. It's wonderful.)
- martian 17y agoSeveral cities seem to have services like the CTA Bus Tracker. Very useful. San Francisco has NextMUNI (http://nextmuni.com http://nextmuni.com), Minneapolis has NexTrip (http://nextrip.metc.state.mn.us/NextripFull.aspx http://nextrip.metc.state.mn.us/NextripFull.aspx).
- jrockway 17y agoVery nice. Services like this should be considered a basic human right :)
- martian 17y agoAgreed. Also just remembered that Google Maps has public transit route-finding in major cities. I'm not sure if this is based on scheduled times or actual times (as reported by services like NextMUNI), but it's a fantastic service.
- kscaldef 17y agoYou forgot: can you do something productive during your wait / ride?
- MaysonL 17y agoAnd also, are you the type for whom walking stimulates the creative juices?