Let's build houses for people, not cars

Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by turk73 on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:01AM (#20810275)

The problem I have with mass transit is that outside of a couple major cities, the system is a horrible time waster. I used to take a bus to downtown job in my mid-sized Midwest city and it was like commuting 2x--I would have to drive to a park and ride, then wait for a bus, then board a bus and then go sit in traffic on a bus. I would arrive 40 mins later, dropped off near the building I worked at, but still had to walk outdoors in sub-zero temps and deal with low-level street crime at times, too. Yes, I got to read or do other crap on the bus, but all the colds and other sickness I caught didn't make up for that.

Contrast that with me just getting in my car and driving to the downtown parking garage and paying for parking at a place that has a skyway where my feet never touch the street at all, and you can understand the dilemma.

Then I got really smart and just stopped working downtown completely and got a job in the suburbs with free parking and while the traffic is still bad, it's nothing like heading downtown is.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by cgriswald on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:16PM (#20811299)

> Then I got really smart and just stopped working downtown completely and got a job in the suburbs with free parking and while the traffic is still bad, it's nothing like heading downtown is.

In my case, working downtown would have been the smart move. I lived in a suburb and worked in a neighboring suburb. The drive was 10 minutes and I could avoid the freeway. I looked into taking the bus because there was a bus stop right outside my apartments and found it would take a minimum of 40 minutes, but realistically with traffic and decent timing on the transfer, it would have taken over an hour. The reason? All the bus routes were essentially straight shots to and from the city, so to take the bus I'd have had to go all the way into downtown, switch buses, and ride all the way back out.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by mixmastamyk on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @01:09PM (#20812041)

> sub-zero temps and… colds and other sickness

Look into a vitamin D3 supplement, approx ~5000 IU daily in the wintertime. Haven't been sick more than a day in the last 5-10 years.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by jlmcguire on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:33AM (#20810693)

One thing to note here is that roads and driving have been heavily subsidized while mass transit has been fought against.

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Re:Let's build houses for people, not cars by mantas on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:44AM (#20810848)

Mass transit is usually subsidised too. Very few mass transit systems survive on fares.

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