[ SECRET POST #4148 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4148 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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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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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.