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Cause no one has any alone time so they use their commute for that
I’d rather walk 16 minutes alone than sit 16 minutes alone in a car
Depends on the walk…
To work? Annoying. Give me sitting in a car.
To anywhere the fuck else? I’ll walk the night away!
Is it over 100 degrees during commute times for 4+ months out of the year?
I like a walk and a bike ride, but I would also have to bring a garment bag with clothes to change into after showering at the office.
There actually is a shower at the office, but with 30 people sharing 1 shower the line would suck.
I mean nothing against walking in general, but when it’s super cold or super hot, it’s much nicer to spend that time in a climate-controlled interior than outside. Especially before I got a heat pump installed so I could actually get some breathable air at home in the summer, the car was the only AC I had access to.
The 16 minutes also gets me about 20 kilometers away versus about a kilometer for the walk. I MIGHT get to the closest store in that time.
is 16 minute wait for the next bus a lot? Depends on the context.
Bus that goes between cities? no.
Bus that goes inside a single city? Yes.It’s so weird, but the psychological difference of having to wait less than ten minutes for the next train vs maybe 20 minutes for the next bus is, indeed, a bit of a gulf.
It’s probably the % of total travel time
i’ve thought about this a lot and i think the two main aspects are travel time and how long it would take to get to the destination otherwise (mostly considering walking and maybe cycling, because drivers are probably not choosing public transport because it’s faster unless we’re talking about high speed trains).
Like if you’re taking the bus to a town 30km away then you’re certainly not walking and biking there would take hours, so hourly buses is acceptable and half-hourly makes you go “oh man this is great”.
But if you’re taking the bus a couple kilometers just to another part of the city then you can totally just walk and cycling might well be slightly faster, so even half-hourly buses becomes… borderline acceptable for commuting to and from work, maybe. You really want AT LEAST every 20 or really 15 minutes for shorter distances, otherwise what the fuck is even the point?
I was once in Iceland and took a guided tour. The bus stopped at a beautiful waterfall that you can walk behind (no loot). You could see the waterfall from the bus but it was a 10 min walk to get to it. I shit you not, the american couple on the bus decided to stay behind because they didn’t want to walk that far. Now I get that people have medical conditions and all but this seemed mostly like an issue of them being tired because the last two stops already required 10 min walks. It’s not their fault either. They grew up in a system that stole all forms of movement from them and fed them corn syrup so now a 20 min walk is unthinkable.
Every study on depression comes to the result that physical exercise is fantastic to combat it but all too often the decisions we make reduce the amount of exercise we get. Teenagers these days zoom past on E-scooters all the time and I often feel like they’re being robbed of what we had with our regular ol’ bikes. Sure it’s harder when you have to pedal and put all the energy in yourself but it also keeps you in a much beter state.
British citizen that moved back to Canada a few years ago. I’d ask my friends to walk a certain distance and they’re utterly bewildered that I’d walk. I also don’t need to wait 5 minutes for a closer parking spot, I can park where it’s free and walk less than a minute.
I’ve changed them quite a bit and now they’ve gotten into running which is nice.
The city guides here tell the same story. The cruise terminal is 200 and change meters/yards from where the historical city tour begins. They have to hire a bus to drive the Americans from the terminal to the spot. If there’s no bus, they stay on the boat. Afterwards they’ll of course say “we could’ve walked that part.”
I hate how many cities here in China got rid of public bikes for public escooters.
Lol, that’s stupid. I haven’t sat in a traffic jam for 7 years or so. And back than, I was getting payed hourly to sit there, so I didn’t mind as much. Can’t imagine sitting in traffic for so ling just to get to the office evry day.
