Encouraging Americans to use more transit under current circumstances falls somewhere between heckling and gaslighting. So much needs to change before it can even be a practical option for most--let alone a desirable one.
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Never mind that WALKING is the only truly eco-friendly way to get around (free, too!)...the complete lack of seriousness and total contempt that's demonstrated by advice like this has done tremendous damage to environmentalism as a cause--enough!
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That's why we need cities built in densely-populated walkable neighborhoods along transit corridors so that public transit can be more cost-efficient and run at greater frequency and give you more options to live closer to your destination
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Even our current built environment could support much more transit use if the transit were a) present and b) in good condition
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Possibly, but the built environment, at least in most of America that I know of (I don't know where you are, I'm in the Southeastern US), is built to depend on car travel and discourage walking…
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My morning commute is 25 minutes by car and 47 minutes by bus; afternoon is also 25 by car and about an hour by bus. And I live right next to a station! We can (and must) do better or else we can scream until we're blue in the face and still convince zero people to take transit.
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There aren't any transit options for me between my job and house lmfao
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I go by train everyday but If I miss that one train I'm pretty fucked, I'll be rlly late then
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I live in Somerville, right by a red line stop, right on two big bus routes. I work in the city. I should be a poster child for mass transit, right? Driving commute: 20-40 minutes Public transit commute: 50-75 minutes I still take the bus and T, though, because of parking costs.
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I have a 34 year old gas guzzling car that I use to run occasional errands or get out of town. I walk to work and to lunch unless it's pouring and transit sucks here. Couldn't do it.
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I'm an edge case but it would literally be impossible for me to do my job Last job it would've also been next to impossible Though I know one guy that commuted via bus
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None. If I moved to where I want to, I could walk and train to work, but my travel time would increase. Right now I drive ten minutes. It would take me at least 30 minutes to get to work that way, at least. It would also kill my ability to look for a new job in my field.
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I live in a bubble county that provides a no-charge bus system that operates out of the medium-size university-city smack in the middle of the county. It operates on a system I call a pulse, where about 15 busses leave a hub, and drive along a route for thirty minutes and return.
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I'm lucky enough to live and work along one of these ~15 routes (i had to strategize it that way.) Bussing increases my commute time from 8 minutes in a car to 22 minutes walking and bussing (less if it's warm enough to put a bike on rack), so more than 20%, but still practical.
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If I lived and worked on opposite sides of town like most people here do walk/bus would be at least 30 minutes due to the nature of the pulse system, where it's possible to get to any place in the area in about 15 minutes in a car. I'm the only person I know at my job who busses.
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The system isn't the most efficient but it's the best and most efficient thing our cow county can afford until the tax base increases a few-fold. http://cvtdbus.org Love you
@CVTDbus keep up the good work
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Bus, yes. Train, no.
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Should clarify: bus, nearly all local travel. Train, possibly trips out of town.
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