Who here is a public transportation user?

[Sadaiyappan]

My mom's cousins son drives a subway car in New York. I used to take the blue line when I was at UIC. I would take the metra Aurora - Chicago every day and sometimes I would just walk through downtown from Union Station to class.

 

[Vette73]

Yep, DCs Metro Rail every morning and afternoon. They open at 5am so I hit the first train and take one about 3:30pm home.

Get some money to take the train but not 100%. Just accepted a job that is 5 minutes from my house. Even better.

 

[Wyndru]

I work in the sticks. People in this area don't even know what public transportation is.

I used to take the train when I lived in Long Island.

 

[trmiv]

Used to ride the BART train to work every day when I lived in the SF Bay Area. Since I moved to Raleigh it's been all car since the public transportation options in this area are almost nonexistent.

 

[Brainonska511]

Currently, I walk, but in a 2 months, I'll be taking the NYC subway to commute.

 

[Gibson486]

Grass is always greener on the other side.

When I take the T, I always wish I had taken my car. When I take my car, i always wish I had taken the T.

But yeah, The T in Boston is good as long as you avoid certain bus lines and the green line (especially the E and D line).

 

[HAL9000]

I am, I use it all the time in / to / from London.

 

[nageov3t]

I work from home 2 days/week and take the subway 2 days/week... my office is only about 5 miles away from my house, but it would be an hour drive in traffic and parking is $20/day.

I walk from my house to the train and pay about $1.50 each way... trains run every 5 minutes and it takes me like 20-25 minutes.

if the weather sucks, I'll drive to the train station (and either pay $7/day for parking or park on the street a few blocks away if I can)

Not I. It isn't good enough in Seattle for where I frequent to and from.

no subway line between your bedroom and bathroom?

 

[nanette1985]

$1.25 each way $3.25 a day $45 a month, but 6 to 6 six days a week, always wondering if they're on time, heat, rain, snoe, ice.
But it is cheap. If you're going where the buses run.

Here in NJ (CT too I assume) public transportation is based on getting to and from NYC. Great if that's where you're going but useless for most other things. If it's just me, I take the train/bus, if I'm going with a few people it's cheaper/more comfortable to drive.

 

[isekii]

wow that's cheap.

I pay $139 for NJ Transit Monthly pass. subway usually when it's super hot/rain
Bus service isn't too bad

 

[purbeast0]

I take the subway on the DC Metro to work daily. I've been doing it for over a year now and absolutely would rather do this than drive to work. my total commute is about 40 minutes sometimes more depending on the trains arriving and stuff. i know where to go to always get a seat and usually on the way home I have a row to my wholeself. the metro station is literally about a 200 foot walk out of my apartment building.

I watch shows/movies on my phone the entire time and have caught up on a ton of shows.

i do spend about $55/week on it however, but I was spending about $50/wk on gas in my car at my prior job. would probably be more now due to gas prices. i also liked putting less than 5k miles on my car last year, as opposed to putting on about 15k - 18k/yr prior to that.

 

[Arcadio]

I don't own a car. Subway gets me anywhere in the city. For long trips I borrow/rent a car.

 

[grrl]

I walk to work and use my motorcycle for most errands. There are plenty of taxis but the bus system is too slow for where I usually go.

 

[yllus]

I'm completely dependent on public transportation here in Toronto. I don't even currently have a licence to drive.

 

[Platypus]

Use trains for everything in Chicago, barely need to drive.

 

[Macamus Prime]

PT all the way in NYC and some areas outside of NYC.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Train station is 10 miles from my house and it's not the same line as the one that comes by work, so if I took the train, I would need to drive 10 miles, then Ride 25 miles into the city center, then transfer to a different train, and ride it out 20 miles back into the suburbs on one of the routes that NNW instead of WNW. Then I would have to take the bus from the train station to the office. It would take about 3-4 hours depending upon how much of a wait between transfers.

Much easier for me to just drive the 20 miles and stay outta the city center completely.

 

[tydas]

Another NJ Transit user here...its a pretty good system although quite expensive...i just go to Newark NJ and it costs me close to $300 per month...i thought the whole idea of mass transit was that it is cheaper???its worth the expense to me since driving around NJ will drive you insane.

 

[aceO07]

NYC Metro. Luckily I have flexible work hours, so I can usually avoid the hoards of people in the morning.

 

[Sadaiyappan]

My parents bought me a used lexus in 2006... And a new Accord in 2005...

 

[alkemyst]

 

[BoomerD]

We don't have a very good public transit system here. City bus system that covers MOST of the city...but you'd better be able to walk quite a ways...

I considered public transit for part of my trip to SF this morning. I'd have had to drive about 55 miles each way to the Dublin station, then catch the BART into SF, then catch a bus to the doctor...but that would have been about $15 just for that part of the trip...$30 if my wife went with me.
I opted to just drive since neither my wife nor I walk very well for any distance, and the cost of public transit just didn't make sense for me. ($30 for an 80 mile round trip)

 

[intogamer]

taking public transport right here right nao

 

[Leros]

I tried public transport. I could save about $70 a month on gas at the expense of adding 2 hours a day to my commute. Screw that.

Its a 15 minute drive in my car or 1.5 hours using public transport.

 

[mmntech]

I used to when I went to university. But I had to drive to get to transit at the time. Worked out cheaper than parking on campus.

One thing about public transit in Toronto, or Canada in general, is how expensive it is. If you have to take both the regional commuter train and the subway, it would cost $383/mo for me. I did this when I was interning downtown.

Even when you factor in parking, driving versus transit costs about the same. That's why most people drive. It's more convenient. You're not limited to predetermined routes and schedules. Problem is the roads are seriously clogged. IIRC, Toronto is now worse than LA for gridlock.