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by amalgamated_inc
1238 days ago
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Switching lines, waiting on connections, and coordinating, of course. This is true of all public transit systems, even the best ones. Unless you live directly at the source station and have a direct shot to your destination station, you're going to waste a lot of time changing buses/trains and waiting and coordinating. And not everybody can live near every transit hub, not even near _a_ transit hub, by definition. Cars are point-to-point. The very best public transit can do is match it in terms of pure speed. Public transport has a much higher bandwidth at the expense of individual travel time. It's a trade-off. Naturally there's a limit to how many cars can dive at any given time in any given city, but I'd definitely expect the average public transit time to be 2-5x the equivalent individual transportation (bicycle if possible/car) transit time. |
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