One of my coworkers and I both live around the same area. I commute to work via bus, he drives (occasionally we carpool, but our schedules are different most days). He doesn't understand why I would take the bus when it's a fifty-minute ride via bus and a twenty-five-minute ride by car.
However, I can use the time on the bus to catch up on email and news (I'm paid by the hour, so no point in working on the bus if I'm going to put in an 8-hour day anyway), or even doze off slightly. By contrast, when you're driving, your attention has to be entirely focused on the freeway. So while he has 50 minutes of being locked up driving, I have 100 minutes of time to relax.
Which is even less fun in windy or rainy conditions :(
Even when there are bus shelters, often such effort has been put into making them uncomfortable for the homeless that they offer no protection from the elements at all.
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One of my coworkers and I both live around the same area. I commute to work via bus, he drives (occasionally we carpool, but our schedules are different most days). He doesn't understand why I would take the bus when it's a fifty-minute ride via bus and a twenty-five-minute ride by car.
However, I can use the time on the bus to catch up on email and news (I'm paid by the hour, so no point in working on the bus if I'm going to put in an 8-hour day anyway), or even doze off slightly. By contrast, when you're driving, your attention has to be entirely focused on the freeway. So while he has 50 minutes of being locked up driving, I have 100 minutes of time to relax.
Does your bus go door to door the moment you need it? My to/from/wait time for the bus is longer than drive time.
Which is even less fun in windy or rainy conditions :(
Even when there are bus shelters, often such effort has been put into making them uncomfortable for the homeless that they offer no protection from the elements at all.