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Poll: Do you take Public Transportation

Do you Take Public Transportation

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hell no I like making my own schedule.

And I don't commute. My wife on the other hand works in Manhattan, which is 1.5 hours door to door one way. Rail road & subway for a 3hr commute each day. I just walk downstairs.
 
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dont forget this isnt early 1900s where there were railroads everywhere back then.
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The railroad tracks are three miles closer to my house than the nearest bus stop. If I could take Union Pacific to work everyday, that would be awesome.
 
Used to for years every day to/from school and work- now I'm working from home so no commute.
 
I take the train every week to go to university and take local transportation (bus, tram).

But I live in Europe, so even though the territory morphology makes it a bit hard for local public transport planning public transport is widespread.
I mean, any underage kid can go to school with public transport from almost anywhere (except some villages with like 5 elderly and nothing else during the winter).
 
I would if it weren't as expensive as driving myself and didn't take 3x longer to get to work.
 
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When I was in university I did. It was too expensive to park on campus so I used to drive to the mall and take transit the rest of the way. Worked out to be cheaper. I also took commuter rail when I was doing a two month internship in downtown Toronto.

Right now, it makes no sense. I live a 5min drive from my work. There's no bus anyway. Transit in the Toronto area sucks pretty hard.
 
Yes I take the bus to work every day. It takes about 1.5 hours each way instead of just over one hour that it would take to drive..but since I don't have to change buses and there are only a couple of stops, I can sleep for at least one hour each way. It's the only way I can have a "normal" life while doing this commute. I get two of my 7-8 hours of sleep each day on the bus 🙂
 
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I did for about a year in college. It made economic sense because my school sold a one-semester bus pass for $55. But it took 45 minutes to go a few miles, I had to transfer, and I still got dropped off over half a mile from my work.

I'd never pay full price to use the bus. It's actually quite expensive, $2.25 per ride during peak times. And for me to get to work, I'd have to transfer twice, and it would take over an hour (commuting by car takes ~20 minutes). Oh yeah, and my office is right next to a bus depot too.
 
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Taking the Metro to get to work takes just as long as driving does for me, and it's a wash in costs. I figure I'd rather not put the miles on my car.
 
A while ago USAToday did an article saying that something 10 or 15% is the ideal amount of commuters on public transit since most people do not work in downtown areas where the buses go. Maybe if the bus went to my work I would but to go downtown and then come back makes no sense based on my current work location.
 
Where I live, only extremely low income group people take them. In fact, if there is a bus service through your community, the home prices plummet.
 
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