Re:The Seven-Year Auto Loan (2019)
by mumblemumble on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:55AM
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It's only a small fraction of the USA where a 90-minute commute by bus and rail is even possible.
Even when I lived in a smaller city where the route would have allowed for such a thing, it isn't necessarily an option, because bus service often starts too late in the morning. Or there's my parents' house - they live in a moderate-size American city of about 250,000 inhabitants, but the nearest bus stop is half a mile away, along a road that lacks sidewalks. That walk would have barely been possible, let alone reasonable, many days of the year.
And yeah, all of that does imply that modern urban planning may be something of an own goal in the proverbial class war, but, nonetheless, that's the situation.
Even when I lived in a smaller city where the route would have allowed for such a thing, it isn't necessarily an option, because bus service often starts too late in the morning. Or there's my parents' house - they live in a moderate-size American city of about 250,000 inhabitants, but the nearest bus stop is half a mile away, along a road that lacks sidewalks. That walk would have barely been possible, let alone reasonable, many days of the year.
And yeah, all of that does imply that modern urban planning may be something of an own goal in the proverbial class war, but, nonetheless, that's the situation.