The parent isn’t looking for pure walking, they’re looking for transit directions that include a higher amount of walking in order to save time overall.

But I don't. If I specifically look up transport directions it often means weather is bad or I'm tired. so no thanks please keep as is

Transit directions includes walking on both ends. Because the train doesn't start and end precisely as your destination (this is called a "taxi cab").

Ok that makes sense.

My tips would be: check if it mistakenly thinks you can't directly walk to the station or something. In my town there's a particular place i often go to where Google I guess just doesn't know or care that there IS a crossing. if I just pick a point across the street it suggests much better routes

And personally if it's more than 5 min of walking i would just look up the way to the station and then from the station separately with whatever modes i prefer

And lobby your government for sorting out public transportation to your block? It seems crazy inconvenient

> My tips would be: check if it mistakenly thinks you can't directly walk to the station or something.

no, it knows and will give a sensible route if you ask for walking directions to the station.

> And lobby your government for sorting out public transportation to your block? It seems crazy inconvenient

Dublin is far from a grid layout, and has serious problems with east<>west transport; there are a bunch of buses and a tram going east to west in the city center, and a few partial orbital routes in the outer suburbs, but going east<>west near but not actually in the center is a problem. They were supposed to launch a proper inner orbital bus route a few years ago, but it has dragged on; in particular it requires special buses, because double-deckers (Dublin Bus's fleet is otherwise entirely double decker) won't fit under the very old railway bridges to the east, and it requires some hard infra work around Heuston Station. But at this point they finally have the Special Buses in operation (there were a lot of teething problems) filling in on other routes, so not sure what the holdup is.

That said, given that it's 15 Google Map minutes walk from the station to office (10 minutes in reality; Google Maps assumes a quite slow walking pace), I'm not sure I'll bother with the orbital bus even if it ever launches.

(I always thought they could fix this rather neatly by building one of these over the canals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn)

> And personally if it's more than 5 min of walking i would just look up the way to the station and then from the station separately with whatever modes i prefer

Problem is when there's multiple stations nearby and which one has the quickest connection varies depending on when exactly you leave. In that case manually checking every combination of stations could be somewhat cumbersome, especially if there's a choice of stations at both ends…

Ok also true. In my google maps in public transport mode there's also an option to prefer least walking or fewest connections, maybe it's not available in some cities?

It sounds like they want the shortest time, even if that means mixing public transit with walking together

> If I select public transport yes, it will suggest public transport ways to get there. I can't see how this is a bug in any way

It will suggest completely nonsensical public transport routes, apparently in an attempt to minimise walking.