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I've heard this argument before. I didn't know how to potentially respond to it until they actually changed the prices.
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Just google maps a trip, and notate the time difference in driving by car and getting there by bus. If you make more than $10/hr, you've already made that back by getting there that much sooner. and you didn't have to deal with the guy masturbating in the corner, or the creeper trying to look up your skirt.
You must be a prime, USAmerican specimen to expulse such rambling against public transport.
And are these people who masturbate in the corner or who are creeping up your skirt in the room right now? (Not seen 'em here is what I'm saying.)
You joke, but depending on the area transit can range from really good to REALLY bad.
Things have gotten really shitty in my city (Calgary, Alberta), my friend takes transit so I hear the horror stories. Homeless people openly doing drugs, screaming at people walking by, sometimes ODing and dying. I've had to leave work to pick up my friend after a homeless guy tried to grab her and was following her with two of his buddies until she went into a restaurant to call me.
The last time I had to take transit on my own they hadn't cleaned the blood off the wall from the stabbing a couple weeks prior (2023 had a transit stabbing every few weeks).
I seriously wish I was making this up as it's been cartoonishly awful the last couple of years.
Who is paying you $10/h to stay home for an extra 15m before work? Or does your job pay you extra for showing up before you're scheduled?
Comparing travel time to your hourly rate is a nonsense argument because you cannot practically monitize that time.
Alternatively, you could look up the travel time by car, and realize that is all wasted time. You can bring a laptop and work on a train. That is not possible when driving.
If you drive an hour a day that's costing you $10 of lost productivity, plus the $5 or so of gas, and the insurance, depreciation, and wear on your vehicle, all in all, it costs significantly more than the transit ticket.
I prefer just having Jeeves drive me in my Ford F250. I've converted the bed into a mobile office, so I wake up, drink a breakfast shake, and begin producing. Then my kids tap me on the shoulder and help guide me to my F250 while I keep producing. Once I'm in the back, I'm producing like never before. I'm dropped off at our main office door, and I switch to mobile and use voice recognition to notate my production during my breakfast and morning ride, and I'm in my office before I finish.
I then produce for 10 straight hours with a 5min break for my lunch shake. By the time the day is over, I summon Jeeves again, and I load into the back and I produce all the way home. My wife makes me my dinner shake, and I finish some emails in my home office while I drink it. I close out my day notating my production for future review using voice recognition while I pat my children on the head and kiss my wife goodnight. Then I immediately sleep to get exactly eight hours so I can wake up and produce again tomorrow.
Hey, trigger warning on nightmare fuel, please.
Buses move more people per square foot. They are exponentially more efficient. So having greater adoption across the board is a net gain, even for car drivers.
I'm making way more than $10/hr but here's the thing: I'm only paid 35 hours a week.
I could spend the rest of it furiously masturbating in a bus and not lose a single cent.
Besides, it's easier to jerk off in a bus than while driving a car.
You would certainly lose a lot of money masturbating in a bus. You'll be kicked off the bus, arrested for indecent exposure, and have to pay a fine and court costs plus community service.
Only if the police catch me.
For me, parking alone would be a quarter of the trip time. Plus I don't get paid hourly so this dynamic doesn't apply to me, plus I can use the trip time for reading, organizing my day, replying to messages and other work instead of focusing on the road the whole time.