Man, if only.
There is no bus from anywhere near my home to where I work. There is no bus from where I live to where I buy groceries. Both of those trips are too far by bicycle and I’d have to be suicidal to even try. If I was desperate I’d have to resort to delivery services and what would even the point be?
Ebikes can be a partial bridge to some situations like this, but man I feel you. It’s rough outside urban cores.
There’s a bus from the end of my block to a grocery store!
Takes twice as long and will drop me across the center from the grocery store where I have to cross one of the busiest stroads around here. Then I’ll have to cross a busy parking lot, then cross it again with groceries.
It’s infuriating.
Where I live there’s a grocery store with a bus stop 20 feet from the entrance. Unfortunately that entrance is “permanently closed due to theft” and so everyone who takes the bus has to walk all the way around the store to the entrance by the parking lot (because, as we all know, thieves love to getaway on public transit, and never cars).
That’s the racism! Cause mostly poor people use public transport, and mostly poor people aren’t white! And we don’t want non white people shopping here, they’re all thieves!
That’s why my stores do certain things though. It’s so stupid.
I’d love to participate, but there’s no way I’m risking my kids’ lives, or keeping them home. Even as a well experienced adult cyclist I feel threatened by cars on basically every road in my area, even the country dirt roads because the speed limit on them is 55mph.
people sometimes post like where would you like to live or such and one of my first things is I need to be in or around a city that has a metro line close enough to one of the stations. I just can’t imagine being without it.
Yep. The first thing I do when looking for a new place to live is check the transit score
Ah I think there’s only US cities on there, which fair enough to grade them on a different scale than European cities
I live damn near the closest I ever have to work and would love to participate but getting to work involves the interstate and bikes/pedestrians/etc can’t be on there. Essentially it’s a ‘you have to have a car’ situation, not even a bus route to where I need to be.
Get a motorcycle
I think that still counts as driving and its a bit out of my budget.
Or my favorite: Scoot. (But wear a helmet)
Metro is truly bad and has only gotten worse over the years.
That’s not true.
