[jethro_tell]

I'd you shorten your life expectancy by 20 min but get 2 hours back today it seems like a fair trade.

And that's why public transit in the us is such a mess, if you want people to use it, you have to make it fast and frequent before people need it, so when you do use it, you thin, huh, that's not too bad.

[alexwhb]

This I definitely agree with. A bus is the worst mode. Most of the downsides of a car with very few if any of rail especially in places with significant traffic. If you replaced that bus experience with light rail, almost certainly you’d be at your destination several times faster

[kragen]

well no, because light rail would necessarily involve walking farther from my house, and it has to wait for car traffic too, albeit less often than buses do. the bus i took actually had a reserved bus lane for a lot of the route, avoiding the traffic thing, but it still only averaged 14 km/hour

[kragen]

well, i wasn't actually dead on the public transit, although on the bus whose air conditioner was broken it felt like it part of the time