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⌈ Secret Post #4148 ⌋

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[Will and Grace season 9]


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[Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Elizabeth Olsen]


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[Stranger Things, Billy/Mrs. Wheeler]


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(Grimm)


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[Antoni Porowski, Queer Eye 2018]


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[The Crown]









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Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

Yesterday many people mentioned how the public transportation is horrible in many US cities.

What's the situation in your hometown? Would you be able to go about your daily business without a car, just by using public transportation or a bike? My town (I live in Europe) has pretty good bus lines, plenty of cycle paths and trains going to nearby cities, so a car wouldn't be obligatory.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I could possibly get by using a bike or walking but ONLY if I lived in or near the town center. Which is expensive. And doing this in winter would be very difficult with the amount of snow we get. Where I live now, absolutely not. The closest grocery store would be a 2 hour walk and there's no bus.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, snow is the other problem with walking, close to downtown where there are more sidewalks and crosswalks. Not everyone shovels, or worse, they shovel onto where you'd need to walk.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[kaijinscendre]

Buses and such don't exist. The sidewalks are all shitty. And everything is so spread out, it is hard to walk places. Especially in summer. This is in Oklahoma.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

LOL I'll second that. I went on vacation to OK in the summer and I decided to walk from my hotel to a museum I wanted to visit while my friend I was visiting was in class. I had a shitty tourist map but there was a sidewalk so I was like what the hell. Oh, my legs hurt so bad by the time I got there. I then compounded it by walking to the ART museum on the college campus nearby which was a bit better because there were trees and it was downtown. I did have water, I promise.

I took a cab back to my hotel. I learned my lesson. My legs actually DID need the walk though. So they actually didn't hurt too much the next day because the muscles all loosened up. Lesson learned: Do not trust shitty tourist maps. Always google. ALWAYS.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[bur]

Oh god, never. I live in the Kansas City metro area, and while there's some street cars and buses in the city proper that are... manageable... there's no way I could get by. I've got a 50 mile round trip across state lines for work, there's no public transport into the city that I know of, definitely nothing that has a stop in my slice of suburbia, and absolutely no one with any kind of sanity would want to make a bike their main mode of transportation in the alternately boiling and frozen landscape that are our seasons unless it's just a five minute ride anywhere they want to go.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[tabaqui]

This. My bff lives in KCMO, and her work is a thirty minute drive...or a two hour with changes bus commute. Which dosn't actually run on her shift schedule, so...her vehicle currently being out of commission? She's stuck with the occasional car pool and Lyft.

You'd think a town that big would have a decent damn system.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I live in a smallish town in a very small county in the US. (I think US counties are a bit different from European counties, but I'm not sure.) We have a train station into two cities, but only one bus, and the bus barely covers any of the county - it has two or three stops in my town, and I believe it goes to the military base.

You can go by bike, but biking isn't super common here. You can barely walk anywhere - there are very few sidewalks, and while we have crosswalks, they're either in the middle of busy intersections, so many people are hesitant to cross, or they're so far apart that they're hard to rely on. I don't drive, and I basically have to either Uber or get rides everywhere.

SA - Context

[(Anonymous)]

Since everyone else gave their location, I live in Maryland.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[cbrachyrhynchos]

It works for me to get to work, because I live one block away from one of the major streets, and parking in the city core is outrageous. It doesn't work all that well if you have to deal with stuff like the weekly cat litter and cat food run.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

In the hometown I grew up is the middle of the country in upstate NY with the cities 45 minutes away by twisty back roads. It costs 60 bucks to get to the airport by cab. (Yes, I did it once.) The local city with the big university has a bus system that services most the county, except I'd have to got roughly 6 miles to get to the nearest stop.

The city I live in now, most buses are every half hour except the few that have really long routes and are every hour. It really makes me miss SF where the buses were about every 15 minutes (I think, I never bothered with a schedule because I never used them unless I wasn't ON a schedule.) I could probably bike most places where I am now in FL and a lot of people do. I'm just terrible at riding bikes.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

We have buses that take people to different parts of town (divided by north, west, east, and south). They only run from 6 am to 6 pm Monday through Friday, though, and there's no service on weekends or holidays. After 6 pm you either need to use a car to get anywhere, or if you don't have one/can't drive, you'll have to rely on cabs, which cost $7.00, last I checked, to take you anywhere within town.

You could also walk, but depending on the area of town, I wouldn't exactly recommend it.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

SA

My town is in Iowa. And I forgot to mention that bikes are common here, too...but as somebody else noted, in the wintertime that's not exactly the best option.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

There are buses, but they pass by every hour, service stops at eight PM, and the stops weren't always close to where I wanted to go. For example, going to the library meant walking for fifteen minutes to the closest stop, riding on the bus for twenty minutes, and walking twenty five minutes to the actual library because I didn't want to wait another hour to get on the bus that actually stopped in front of the library. With a car, I can get to the library in fifteen to twenty minutes, depending on traffic. There's no way I would be able to go to work without a car. It's three towns over and through a dangerous mountain path. There's no public transportation that goes that far or in the town itself and if I walked, I'd get there in six hours.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I can't drive, so I rely heavily on public transportation. Around here it's pretty comprehensive. The train is the most reliable and runs the longest hours, and the buses cover some of the areas the train doesn't hit, but there's always areas you'd be better off getting an Uber for. Depending on the route, the bus schedule can be spaced out by anywhere from a minute to an hour.

We do have a song about how our public transit system is too expensive, so there's that.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[greghousesgf]

Public transit exists in most places where I live (the SF bay area) but it's very badly run and full of rude/crazy/just plain incompetent people (both staff and other riders)

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

When I first moved to this city, I found an apartment 2.5 miles from my job. The neighborhood is very walkable and I could (and occasionally did) walk to work, although it was too much of a hike for everyday or bad weather. I wish I'd owned a bike because I could have biked to work all the time (the main drag through the neighborhood has bike lanes down both sides and the other streets are pretty quiet).

Then the office moved to a location directly adjacent to downtown. This was about 6 miles away. It was actually technically walkable the entire way, with sidewalks and safe crossings the whole route. I actually did walk all the way home one nice summer day, but a 12 mile round trip is not a thing I could do daily (no time, for one thing). Biking would have been very hard, though, because most of the streets going into downtown from my direction and around within downtown are not bike friendly - busy, no bike lanes, no space between traffic lanes and parking lanes (which are always parked up) and it's illegal for anyone over the age of 10 (or was it 12?) to ride a bike on the sidewalk. It still might have been doable, but would have involved a more circuitous route and maybe off-setting my commute against rush hour. Busing there was fine and that was nice if my car was in the shop or I needed to travel for work (nowhere I could leave my car at work), but I could get there faster if I drove (and the immediate neighborhood had free street parking since we weren't quite in downtown proper, where everything is metered). I've taken then bus downtown for other things, too, like going to a museum. It's something I like about where I live that I can do that.

Then I got laid off and got a new job. It's more or less at the far side of town, about 16 miles away. It's technically possible to get there by bus, but I've never tried since it could take up to 2 hours each way if the connection isn't timed right. Since it's on the far side of downtown, the express commuter buses run the other way, so after transferring in downtown, I'd have to ride the next 10 miles on a regular bus that stops every other block and takes forever. All that and it would still involve some awkward walking at the work end where I'd have to cross a busy street and go through an area that's not pedestrian-friendly (this is in one of those unfortunate suburbs where no one bothered planning infrastructure like sidewalks, although we have sidewalks right by work because it's in the core of what used to be the old village that the suburb grew up around). Biking there would also be super-tricky, and would take too long, and some of the possible routes go through sketchy areas. Also, it just wouldn't be a viable option in winter. Meanwhile, I can't afford to live up there - it's one of the most expensive areas of town - so I'm stuck driving from elsewhere.

So, in my city, it really depends on where point A and point B are whether you can get between them on a bus. There is no light rail here. Fortunately, a lot of the older neighborhoods are walkable, it's just that the amenities you need may not be within walking distance.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[tabaqui]

Do not have any. At all. We are a small, mostly rural town right next to a *huge* military base, and the only 'public' transportation is the shuttle that takes old people to the store and stuff.

No pt in my hometown, and very bad, unreliable, and 'takes frigging hours!' pt in the city i lived in before that.

Only place that had good pt was Tacoma, in Washington state.

ETA: Current place not really walkable, as there are very few sidewalks and the main drag is *very* busy. I could bike it if i owned a bike. Much more walkable in the next town/by the military base.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I live in a medium sized city. I did not have a car for like six years. I could walk to work (2.3 miles) or I could take the bus (walk 1/2 mile, take a bus, walk 1/4 mile), and it ran every hour. I could get to most places by bus, as I was within a mile of four major roads that buses drove down. The issue is if I had to go anywhere more in the suburbs, like to shop, to babysit, or to visit my mom. As the buses for the suburbs ran much more sporadically, not at all on Sunday to where my mom lives, and often not late at night. Like at my current job, the last bus leaves at 12:23, but I often work until between 1 and 2. I am not walking the 3.5 miles through my city at 2am. (Although out of necessity I once walked 7 miles from babysitting home at midnight. That was when I didn't have a car.) Bikes are mostly doable, as about half the roads have bike lanes, and they keep redoing roads to make more. But that is only when it is nice weather. We have snow from November to April, so bikes aren't always feasible. And they aren't at all feasible for me, as I live in an apartment, so I have nowhere to put the bike.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

Public transportation is great where I live in England. I only drive my car if I am doing a lot of shopping or buying something large. Otherwise I walk or cycle. I live in a small village that doesn't even have an off-licence but there's a market town two miles away and I can get a bus home if I need to. I take the bus or train to nearby larger cities and have a network rail card for the train so off peak I pay a lot less.

I have lived in America about half my life and public transport was always terrible except in some cities. NYC had the best public transport and Pittsburgh was pretty good as long as you were staying within the city limits. But most places I had to drive everywhere and the last place I lived (Arizona) I had a 90 mile commute to work each day and my husband's was about 75 miles in the opposite direction.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

In our city, the bike infrastructure is actually pretty good - at least two of the suburbs have been named #1 Bike City in...idk some kind of official ranking. I don't own a bike, but if I did I would be able to bike for small errands - less than five items at the grocery store, shipping orders at the post office. But going anywhere else in the city by bus would basically turn a 1-hour errand into an all-day adventure and ain't nobody got time for that shit.

My partner works downtown, though, so the bus actually works great for her. The bus system is more or less set up to work best for people going in and out of downtown but not for anyone who needs to get crosstown or from one burb to another. It's a major criticism of similar cities in the US - they're trying but they're not succeeding.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in Canberra and it's very easy to get around. There are buses which aren't the most reliable, but luckily I can cycle and Canberra's a very good city to get around with by bike. Pretty much everyone cycles

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I live in a suburban area in a large coastal California city. The actual city center is about ten miles away, and three light rail lines and an actual railway all converge there, plus there are tons of buses. All bus and trolley service within city limits stops between 1:00 and 4:30 am.

In my actual neighborhood, there are three bus lines; one goes from my neighborhood through a bunch more to a transit hub for more inland bus routes and doesn’t run on Sundays, one makes a loop through a couple beach neighborhoods to a trolley, bus, and commuter train hub on weekdays and has less frequent weekend service, and one runs from a huge university to the north to the same trolley/bus/train hub as the second bus line, and on weekdays, goes all the way downtown. The most frequent bus and trolley services run every fifteen minutes, the least frequent every two hours.

I take one bus and a trolley for about an hour and a half, and walk for 1.5 miles each way to my job. Monthly transit passes are insanely expensive, but mine is heavily subsidized by my (city government) job.

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

I live in San Jose, California, and I could absolutely NOT get by without a car. We have buses and VTA light rail trains here (no BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] this far south yet), but they are unreliable or completely non-existent on the weekends. A woman I work with cannot work weekends with me because she has no car and the bus that she takes to work doesn't run on weekends. Several people I work with can't work after 9pm on fucking WEEKDAYS because the buses they are stop running at 8:50 or 9:00 PM! That is absolute BULLSHIT for a city of this size (one and a quarter million people)!

Re: Public transportation in your hometown

[(Anonymous)]

Living in Germany, I haven't had a car since 2003. There's no train station in my town, but the buses go every twenty minutes during the day, and every hour in the evening and on Sunday. It takes me about 45 minutes to get to work by bus (next city over).

My house is a five minute walk away from three big supermarkets (Aldi, Lidl, Rewe), so I'm good. When I'm sick, I order groceries by Rewe delivery service.