Not the person you’re replying to, but if you happen to miss a train or it gets cancelled you generally are already at the train station. Depending on travel time and conditions it might be safer or more convenient to wait at the station, even if it’s for two hours.
I’ve never had to wait for a next train for longer than 30 minutes (maybe once it was an hour because it was a very small train station and during the weekend), but I live in a place with a pretty dense railway network and have mostly lived near one of the biggest routes.
the local trains are the most convenient the Orange, Blue, Red and Green with delays up to about 20 minutes but a lot of people tend to wait for an Uber (again someone with a car) if it’s over 20 minutes of a wait.
Commuter Rail depending on your arrival station and your destination station, your wait time can be 2 hours okay yeah if you miss a train you’re waiting the 2 hours but I gave an example below of a short shopping trip where you’re fucking yourself taking the commuter rail out to a dispensary that can be an hour and a half round trip by car vs 4 a 4 hour round trip by public transportation/the equivalent to a flight to Denver.
LIke doing groceries by public transportation sucks too, I usually call an uber, again the person wit a car and a personal storage area where you can load up your own shit.
You can’t attach a camper to a bus and go to Maine, right? You can actually have like freedom to do shit and experience life when you have a car. You can take public transportation for fun and make it something to do for fun when you have a car. You still appreciate it, it just doesn’t suck to be an individual. Again, this is coming from the 16 years of doing it and i’m just good on it.
I don’t even drive, I don’t even own a car yet, I’m still biking and using the T, my back fucking hurts at 33 and I’m really sick of it. After a while you start questioning a lot of things but I won’t lie I love biking and I end up always being thrown that bone by nature and life and having those moments where my music syncs to my surroundings and/or everything feels perfect like I’m the only one on the planet or just everything has that, “it’s for me,” feeling and for that i truly don’t hate being a cyclist. and there are times on public transportation where i get to see crazy shit happen, like the last time on the orange line there were two boneheads jumping back and fourth between moving carts after they opened the door between the two, I don’t 100% hate public transportation it’s just over time you start to need to get around a little easier is all
It’s not that i absolutely fucking hate it it’s unreliable for absolute needs. Like doctors appointments, getting to work, getting groceries, getting cannabis from the dispensary that has the strain that actually helps. If my mom was taken to the hospital that’s an all day affair for me to get there by public transportation, she could die by the time I get there, if I drove it’s less than 45 mins away.
Not the person you’re replying to, but if you happen to miss a train or it gets cancelled you generally are already at the train station. Depending on travel time and conditions it might be safer or more convenient to wait at the station, even if it’s for two hours.
I’ve never had to wait for a next train for longer than 30 minutes (maybe once it was an hour because it was a very small train station and during the weekend), but I live in a place with a pretty dense railway network and have mostly lived near one of the biggest routes.
the local trains are the most convenient the Orange, Blue, Red and Green with delays up to about 20 minutes but a lot of people tend to wait for an Uber (again someone with a car) if it’s over 20 minutes of a wait.
Commuter Rail depending on your arrival station and your destination station, your wait time can be 2 hours okay yeah if you miss a train you’re waiting the 2 hours but I gave an example below of a short shopping trip where you’re fucking yourself taking the commuter rail out to a dispensary that can be an hour and a half round trip by car vs 4 a 4 hour round trip by public transportation/the equivalent to a flight to Denver.
LIke doing groceries by public transportation sucks too, I usually call an uber, again the person wit a car and a personal storage area where you can load up your own shit.
You can’t attach a camper to a bus and go to Maine, right? You can actually have like freedom to do shit and experience life when you have a car. You can take public transportation for fun and make it something to do for fun when you have a car. You still appreciate it, it just doesn’t suck to be an individual. Again, this is coming from the 16 years of doing it and i’m just good on it.
I don’t even drive, I don’t even own a car yet, I’m still biking and using the T, my back fucking hurts at 33 and I’m really sick of it. After a while you start questioning a lot of things but I won’t lie I love biking and I end up always being thrown that bone by nature and life and having those moments where my music syncs to my surroundings and/or everything feels perfect like I’m the only one on the planet or just everything has that, “it’s for me,” feeling and for that i truly don’t hate being a cyclist. and there are times on public transportation where i get to see crazy shit happen, like the last time on the orange line there were two boneheads jumping back and fourth between moving carts after they opened the door between the two, I don’t 100% hate public transportation it’s just over time you start to need to get around a little easier is all
It’s not that i absolutely fucking hate it it’s unreliable for absolute needs. Like doctors appointments, getting to work, getting groceries, getting cannabis from the dispensary that has the strain that actually helps. If my mom was taken to the hospital that’s an all day affair for me to get there by public transportation, she could die by the time I get there, if I drove it’s less than 45 mins away.