What I don’t get is why people are okay with all-day drives that could be comfy train rides. Not to mention commute traffic jams of everyone going in the same direction at the same time every workmorning and workevening.
I also can’t comprehend all-day drives over all-day trains. If I take a train on my own or with my family, those are (partially) actionable hours. I can read a book, grab a coffee, work on my laptop, draw with my kid. If I go by car, best I can do is a podcast.
Since I don’t own a car, my point of view is also biased by not having to make sense of a large investment. But if you factor is the costs of having the car, gas and tolls… I’d rather go by train. If necessary, I can rent a car at my arrival destination.
If you’re just one person a train can be attractive if you have reasonable transportation to and from the station. A car gets really cheap once it’s a family of 4. Planes also offer significant time savings for a comparable price.
I would love to have public transit where I live that could easily get me to work, without having to take the freeway and deal with traffic. There isn’t a train near me which goes to my workplace, sadly.
That seems more like a task for a bus and/or tram network alongside trains, maybe also a taxi (I’d argue there should be a public transit form of taxis to fulfill a hole not covered by existing modes).
Of course, that’s not a personal failure, that’s a policy failure.
Funny thing, there is a public taxi system where I live. Though the taxi doesn’t even go near my place of work. Also, there use to be bus lines going through here, but that disappeared.
What I don’t get is why people are okay with all-day drives that could be comfy train rides. Not to mention commute traffic jams of everyone going in the same direction at the same time every workmorning and workevening.
I also can’t comprehend all-day drives over all-day trains. If I take a train on my own or with my family, those are (partially) actionable hours. I can read a book, grab a coffee, work on my laptop, draw with my kid. If I go by car, best I can do is a podcast.
Since I don’t own a car, my point of view is also biased by not having to make sense of a large investment. But if you factor is the costs of having the car, gas and tolls… I’d rather go by train. If necessary, I can rent a car at my arrival destination.
If you’re just one person a train can be attractive if you have reasonable transportation to and from the station. A car gets really cheap once it’s a family of 4. Planes also offer significant time savings for a comparable price.
Because public transit is for poor people/minorities, and if they used it they’d be around a bunch of poor people/minorities.
I think this is a big factor. A lot of people are racist, and a lot of people are like pathologically anti-social.
Then they can’t fly less than Leer, a 747 is as “public” as any Amtrak train.
and they see themselves as temporarily embarrassed [m|b|tr]illionaires, right?
I would love to have public transit where I live that could easily get me to work, without having to take the freeway and deal with traffic. There isn’t a train near me which goes to my workplace, sadly.
That seems more like a task for a bus and/or tram network alongside trains, maybe also a taxi (I’d argue there should be a public transit form of taxis to fulfill a hole not covered by existing modes).
Of course, that’s not a personal failure, that’s a policy failure.
Funny thing, there is a public taxi system where I live. Though the taxi doesn’t even go near my place of work. Also, there use to be bus lines going through here, but that disappeared.