theoldwizard1 wrote:
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Thank god I am on the way out. I can tolerate just so much "stupid". People would rather spend four hours commuting solo in a ton and a half vehicle than spend a third that time riding in a 1st class mass transit system.
While I was working, my longest commute was less than 45 minutes. Most of my career it was about 20 minute. Same for the wife.
Where I lived and worked, there was NO MASS TRANSIT that would get me from here to there that would not require several miles of walking.
Ditto here.
I have a 30 minute drive to my office if I leave home around 9am.
The closest place to access mass transit is about 4 miles down the road from here. The problem is though because of how far out of town we are the service is pretty sparse and so even though the trip is only 90 minutes (versus the 30 minutes drive) I would need to be on the bus at 6:45am instead of leaving home at 9am. Much the same at day’s end. I’d need to find something to do for an hour at the end of the day before the next bus left, then the 90 minute trip.
In the end my 9 hour day would turn into a 12.75 hour day, an extra 3.75 hours a day.
That equates to about the equivalent of 120 ‘work days’ of additional commute time per year.
Pass thanks......
