pete6032
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You live 2 minutes away and drive?I despise it. Thank god I live about 2 min from work
You live 2 minutes away and drive?I despise it. Thank god I live about 2 min from work
Beats sitting in the car twiddling thumbs. But in traffic I'll just sit in the car twiddling thumbs. Automated cars will be a bit of a pain to live with (too much rule-following), but not when in traffic.
No choice but to drive. Even though I work at the largest employer in the city, there is no public transportation to my work. I did try the bus system once to go downtown. What is normally a 15 minute drive took 3 hours by bus with numerous transfers.
I don't mind it when it's not in traffic. I can't stand being in traffic.
That said, my goal when driving is to get where I need to go as fast as possible safely. I can't stand people who are out there lolly gagging on the road as if they don't want to get where they are going. That shit grinds my gears.
And yes the slow assholes in the fast lane also grind my gears.
Unfortunately I didn't.
Where I live, the bus service is every 60 minutes and to get downtown you have to transfer to two different routes that are scheduled for every 30 minutes. None of the bus route schedules are aligned, nor are there times posted on when they will arrive. There is just a sign you stand next to, and if a bus comes along you get on. Not counting the ride times, I waited at least 1.5 hours just on bus arrivals. Yeah I may have exaggerated a little bit, but not by much. Riding public transportation in North Texas is like walking in Los Angeles. You try to avoid it.Or the bus routes you took were under heavy construction/re-routing delays for anomolous reasons.
I understand how PT can be vastly different than driving times in certain cities (I recall a regular train/bus route in Chicago that would take me about 1 hour, 20 minutes; vs a 20-30 minute drive on the fastest drive route (where no PT route followed)---but that also compared heavy commuter times to non-commuter times of day), but no PT infrastructure can be that bad. So, I'm guessing a little big of exaggeration compounded on top of a raging awful experience the one time you took PT on the day that a series of cascading events wrecked the route. ...which definitely happens. It's why it can be so frustrating, because you can't modify your route at any given moment to try and change your situation.
Or the bus routes you took were under heavy construction/re-routing delays for anomolous reasons.
I understand how PT can be vastly different than driving times in certain cities (I recall a regular train/bus route in Chicago that would take me about 1 hour, 20 minutes; vs a 20-30 minute drive on the fastest drive route (where no PT route followed)---but that also compared heavy commuter times to non-commuter times of day), but no PT infrastructure can be that bad. So, I'm guessing a little big of exaggeration compounded on top of a raging awful experience the one time you took PT on the day that a series of cascading events wrecked the route. ...which definitely happens. It's why it can be so frustrating, because you can't modify your route at any given moment to try and change your situation.
Public transportation in DFW is more of a "yeah we have that" than something you would actually want to use. Hell up until 2013 Arlington, which is a city of 375,000 people sandwiched between Dallas and Fort Worth, was the largest city in America without any public transportation.
That is ridiculous. Not even regional transit that covers the city? A small town of 35k North of my city gets regional bus service just like my 330k city.
OK, you clearly did something wrong.
I love mythical unicorn driving:
There are some roads in eastern VA that are like this. With all this road construction on the highways, these roads are now about the same in terms of drive time.
HOWEVER - with Google Maps, the AI will start directing people to take these roads instead of the highways and thereby clog up these too. Dammit.
That is ridiculous. Not even regional transit that covers the city? A small town of 35k North of my city gets regional bus service just like my 330k city.
Public Transportation kills freedom in states like Texas.
...I'm being serious.
But what cepak and local say does ring true, if you live in a city that only provides some semblance of PT begrudgingly. I did grow up in a southern subburby town where there really was no notion that we had PT. There was a bus system, CAT, but I do believe that went under many many years ago. The funny thing is that I recall realizing at some point that I had stopped seeing those buses on the street and couldn't remember the last time I saw them. You get used to the notion that you simply can't get anywhere in these towns without a car. On the other hand, you generally grow up with a different mindset when you live in an actual city with dedicated, supported PT that is meant to work.
If I'm in traffic, I prefer that 3rd pedal. Doesn't matter if its 2 hours of NYC traffic or or stuck on a mountain road behind a tractor trailer.
Driving the wifes auto sucks.