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by atgm
4508 days ago
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> Well have you heard of these things called buses and trains? They're awesome. They ARE awesome, but often come at the expense of time. I live in Tokyo, which has an amazing public transportation network. Including walking to/from stations and bus stops, taking the bus/train costs me around 80 minutes of my day each way -- that's over 2 1/2 hours of my day. If I take a taxi directly from my apartment to work, it takes about 15-20 minutes to get directly to work. Let's call it 40 minutes of my day. I can get back two hours of my life every single day with point-to-point transport. That's two hours I could be catching up with friends, reading a book, cooking, exercising, etc. It matters so often to me that I end up paying the 4000 yen or so it costs to take a taxi twice a day a horrifying number of times. This is to say nothing of the fact that I can sit in the taxi and read a book or something rather than being crammed and crushed in public transport. |
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> Including walking to/from stations and bus stops, taking the bus/train costs me around 80 minutes of my day each way
That's not actually how we define "amazing public transportation network". My experience of public transit in Seattle is "about 5 minutes away from a bus stop, anywhere, and about 30 minutes to anywhere I care to go in the city, and maybe an hour if I go across the lake to Bellevue or Redmond".
The fact that it takes you longer for traveling within the city than it does for me to change cities suggests to me that Tokyo's public transit is either ridiculously bad or you have an extremely unusual case.