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Percent of Americans who depend on cars to get to work (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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[–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean there are a lot of people that do go without cars. I went without a car for 8 years because I lived on a bus line and I worked on a bus or a train line depending on how far I had to go. The commute sucked sometimes was over 2 hours. There are times where I had to be on the bus at 4:30 in the morning to be to work at 6:30. And when you go 4 to 5 hours a day just commuting a car is very nice because that same drive was maybe 45 minutes between morning and afternoon. That gives you so much more time to do everything else. Having a functioning system doesn't mean much when you have to go so far.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I am not sure what your point is.

    So you went without a car and spent 2 entire months of your year commuting in hours.

    And that's...?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    My point is if you're spending that much time commuting it's not really efficient nor does it work for most people's lives. Which is why most people opt to drive their car to and from work and pretty much anywhere else. I don't know what you're asking and I don't know how to explain that better than that to you. I thought it was pretty evident with making a statement that oftentimes commuting over mass transit is not the best option. No matter how efficient or get the bus system or chain system is. Hell the bus system in my area comes every 15 minutes and the train is usually every 5 to 10 minutes even on weekends. We have a large commuter train that comes anywhere from 15 minutes to 45 minutes depending on the time of day and whether or not it's a weekend. But when you're having to travel so many miles it's still takes time no matter what.

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