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I love me some grassy trams (lemmy.world)
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[–] -3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I like trains because if I notice I forgot something important 20 minutes into a one hour commute it will set me back two hours and forty minutes.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why would you go the whole way to your destination and not exit the next stop to return home?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I take the express train. I don’t want my one hour commute to be a two hour commute because they stop for five minutes every 8 minutes and have to get back up to speed. I already have to wake up ten minutes earlier to take the light rail, change trains to a local, take that three stops to a hub, and change to the express train. I should just buy a car.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oh damn. That kind of sucks :/ do you often forget things at home?

    I really enjoy commuting by train + bike, it is really cheap and kind of fun to be active before and after work. But my commute (at least the train part) is quite a bit shorter.

    Depending on weather or track maintenance/construction I often think about getting a car as well. But then I remember how stressful commuting by car is and that thought is gone

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    One time I did all my grocery shopping for the month by train but I had to bring six friends to help carry everything home and I had to pay for all their tickets there and back. I bought them all dinner for wasting hours in their day to do what one person could trivially accomplish with one car. It actually ended up being cheaper to just pay the premium for instacart and tip the driver.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Living in Europe I completely don't share that sentiment.

    Cars should be used only when necessary and actually save significant proportion of time, otherwise cities become inhospitable hellholes and everyone loses (including cars now stuck in traffic).

    But then again, I don't forget things too often, and in other post I saw you said that you regularly need to make a 3 part jurney. This would be a good situation to get a car.

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