Well, why don’t you compare? Open up Google Maps. Choose two points in the suburbs, and see how long it takes to travel between them by car versus by public transit.
I did the same, between my apartment complex and a nearby business, and the estimates are 12 minutes by car and 47 minutes by bus. Main problem: there’s a transfer in the middle of this route where I’d have to wait 11 minutes for the next bus to arrive.
I tried again with a different business, and got a direct bus route with no transfers and exactly the same route I’d take in a car. This is the best-case scenario for public transit, but going by car is still significantly faster: 10 minutes by car, or 17 minutes by bus.
Ha! I’d kill for 10 minutes. When I first moved to SoCal I didn’t have a car and had two take two buses daily to work with an hour between.
One time the second bus didn’t show (not the first time), I couldn’t find a ride so I walked the 10 miles and got to work sooner than if I’d taken the bus.
Well, why don’t you compare? Open up Google Maps. Choose two points in the suburbs, and see how long it takes to travel between them by car versus by public transit.
I did the same, between my apartment complex and a nearby business, and the estimates are 12 minutes by car and 47 minutes by bus. Main problem: there’s a transfer in the middle of this route where I’d have to wait 11 minutes for the next bus to arrive.
I tried again with a different business, and got a direct bus route with no transfers and exactly the same route I’d take in a car. This is the best-case scenario for public transit, but going by car is still significantly faster: 10 minutes by car, or 17 minutes by bus.
Ha! I’d kill for 10 minutes. When I first moved to SoCal I didn’t have a car and had two take two buses daily to work with an hour between.
One time the second bus didn’t show (not the first time), I couldn’t find a ride so I walked the 10 miles and got to work sooner than if I’d taken the bus.