Live in the suburbs, win suburb prizes

I always took the bus to college even though buses are slow here, because on the bus I could read (the college was the last stop) and I didn't have to pay for parking, and it got me closer to the school than the parking was, and was free because it's free for college students. All that added up to make it well worth the time. I didn't have to transfer though.

The time isn't the only consideration.

You can actually see the swirls of the wind in the plastic wrapper garbage that blows by.

I've always thought about this but if cars stopped being the primary way to get around, transports like this or ambulances could get by without all the traffic and constant forcing their way through traffic.

And the tickets they give you for the transfers don't correspond to the number you see on the bus, it's not even on there, that's some other system, so you just have to memorize which one is what route. First time I had to ask each of the drivers nervously if this bus went to [place I live] or not.

People who live in places that have connected and working mass transit do not know the treasure they have.

I've used buses before for a while for different purposes, and while it worked if you could make the stops line up, even then I couldn't help thinking of the time lost when a straight drive with a car was so much shorter. All because of the limited selection and long routes to try and service all the populated areas while not really being close to anything.

And heaven help you if you rely on it and there's only a few buses a day... and you miss it.

Same thing happens here, especially since were two cities that are connected (been here 20 years and gun to my head idk if I could accurately describe the border) and the transfers can be brutal.

Thankfully, my e-bike can get me there faster. There are even safe trails to use (with some crossings).

Dang I feel you. Started a new job this month and my route to work is now Bus-Train-Bus. The train part is actually really nice and only takes 30min, but the busses are so annoying because the transfer windows just don't really line up. Like the train arrives at :34 but the only bus line that goes reasonably close to my work leaves at :30 and :50. It's not even far (like 2km from my home to the train station and 4km from the second train station to my work), just barely far enough that walking feels like a waste of time.

I have yet to find a set of connections that take less than 1h30m in total. By car the route would take 32mins. If I take my bike instead of the busses I can get the total time down to 50-ish mins but a ticket for taking a full-sized bike on the train costs 7,50€ per day. I have ordered a foldable bike though (those are free to take on trains) and I'm hoping that it will be a good solution.

You can actually see the swirls of the wind in the plastic wrapper garbage that blows by. The area is like semi enclosed by big box stores so my theory is that it like accumulates the airborne garbage somehow.

It's like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for big box stores. The Great Big Box Trash Tornado?

It's pathetic that buses take 2-3x longer than driving, I have the same situation for most destinations. It's especially grueling in the darkness of winter.

You can actually see the swirls of the wind in the plastic wrapper garbage that blows by

New Jersey?! /hj

I have a similar commute time to my school, which is also about a 20 minute drive away by car. There’s an express bus that reduces the time to an hour but only runs every 30 minutes, I have to transfer once to get there, the bus to get to the transfer only runs every 20 minutes, and gets to the transfer stop with only a few minutes to spare. So if traffic is bad or several people have to take extra time getting on/off, I miss the transfer to the express and have to take the slower local bus.

I love public transit but it’s SO ANNOYING when there isn’t enough bus frequency. Missing a bus by 1 minute because someone in a wheelchair got on shouldn’t mean I lose 30 minutes of travel time.