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Mudcat

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So happens I had some experience with public transit recently due to some car difficulties.

There are many observations that could be made but first and foremost in my mind: it is not cheap.

I'm not sure what I was expecting but not that.

I own my car outright - so no monthly payments. So the set cost of my car every month is gas + insurance + parking.

Cost of public transit commute was a bit less than that - but just like 20 bucks a month. I guess if gas goes back up where it usually lives, the savings would be more significant.

And obviously maintenance is the wild card.

But yeah, no, not cheap.
 
Other than that, it was not bad tho. The one thing I learned is that if my car just completely blew up or whatever, I could manage with transit indefinitely.

It happened during the absolute coldest days of the winter - and there is a bit of a walk between the train station and work. But I bundled up and was fine. No biggie.

It takes a bit longer overall - not insanely but a bit - but I can also use my brain for things I can't when I am driving. Pros and cons that way.



It's nice to have a car but not essential.
 
With transit, door-to-door, about 45 minutes each way.

Fortunately I have an excellent relationship with my employer so I could shift my hours around at the end of the day to fit in better with the train schedule. If not for that - with my regular hours - I would have had to sit and wait for 40 minutes every afternoon for the train to show up.

But the way I worked it out ---> leave work a bit early - 10 minute power walk to the station right in time for the train. Zero waiting. 35 minutes travel time for train + bus.

So 45 altogether.

Car is more like 25.
 
yeah it's not cheap here either and it is pretty inadequate. Poor people get foked over on both ends.

It is fun to take for a short amount of time, but really gets to you if you have to use it everyday.

I remember when I was a struggling gambler. I took 2 buses about 1.5 hours just to get to the bus that would take me up the mountains to the casinos: another hour every day. I was broke but foking determined dreamer:sparesomecutter:

...good thing I was in my 20s :coolingoff:
 
You should really be amortizing the cost the car across the whole time you own it, making the public transit more reasonable in comparison. While 12.50 is indeed a lot i suspect you may be missing a free transfer if you paid for both the train and bus as I've recently done that in Toronto... Alternatively, there may be monthly options that reduce the cost if you calculated it based on a daily rate. We pay $2.50/ride or $5.00/day out and back with free transfers to the bus and $112 for a 30 day unlimited pass. People who ride the commuter rail add another $250-450/mo depending on how far out in the burbs they live... I guess that comes out to about 12.50/day...
 
Yes i see an unlimited metropass (good on al TTC service except downtown express) is 11.50, so by buying single tix for each service muddy is spending a $1 more than anyone should for a day. Or $141.50 for a monthly pass which only requires that you ride 13 days @ 11.50/day to further reduce the cost. If you rode 5days for 4 weeks on that pass you'd be down to about $7/day!
 
Sold my car in 2006, haven't looked back. Parking is 250-350/mo and insurance is 1-2k/yr. I have a sister and a sister in law with a car that we can use on occasion. We are a little spoiled by one of most efficient far reaching public transit systems in nYC but is is quite filthy. I love public transport. When i go to a new city on vacation experiencing the public transit is something i look forward too.
 
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Sold my car in 2006, haven't looked back. Parking is 250-350/mo and insurance is 1-2k/yr. I have a sister and a sister in law with a car that we can use on occasion. We are a little spoiled by one of most efficient far reaching public transit systems in nYC but is is quite filthy. I love public transport. When i go to a new city on vacation experiencing the public transit is something i look forward too.
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Winters in a big city suck. It would take time for me to get used to public trans. The only time I've ever used it was in Vegas, very easy.
 
Theres still discounts with presto. A monthly commuter going 4(weeks)x5(days)x2(trips a day) would pay 6.25x.1x35 + 6.25x.875x5 less making the fare effectively .69 cents cheaper. And if you travel more for non work reasons it gets even cheaper. But yeah, the further you move from any cities core the more transit costs and the more convenient (including financially) a car becomes.
 
Its wrong too, on a 30 day time period theres actually 22 weekdays making it $.93 cheaper per ride. And also its tax deductible so you effectively save another .15-.30 per dollar sent depending on your tax bracket.

I love public transit but i realize im spoiled by nyc transit and only have experience with the non-burbs versions. Miami just recently completed their airport connected rail. I used it a couple weeks ago and thought it was fabulous. Real cheap ($2.25?) and it originated at the airport so its punctual, very fast to government center.
 
Quite the variety of characters you encounter. Whole spectrum. If I was continuing to use public transit (knock on wood that my car hasn't spontaneously combusted as we speak.)

But yeah, but no - this thread would get to a thousand posts pretty fast if I started describing/analyzing some of the characters I was seeing daily.


On the positive side, it reinforced a thought I have had for a long, long time: there are so many fascinating and wonderful ways for women to look good.

I probably would have fallen secretly in love with 18 different women if I continued.
 
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