First World:
Not quite comparable, because long distance, but for someone usually bouncing around Germany, the TGV network is kinda crazy. A bit envious after returning.
Like, the ICE is usually faster than driving, and I don’t have a car anyways, since I don’t really need one, but having a separate network for high speed rail means the French are just on another level.
More than twice as long as walking is impressive.
My guess is because it doesn’t have a direct line to the destination, so you need to go all the way down to a station and make a bus swap to come back.
Like imagine you need to go two blocks south, from First Street to Third Street. But there’s no bus that goes north/south. So you go fifteen blocks east on First Street to the station, wait for your next bus, then come back another fifteen blocks west on Third Street in a new bus. Or you could just walk the two blocks south.
In my city at least, this happens because a lot of the bus routes are one way in the morning / afternoon (into or out of the city) so if you want to take a bus out of the city/downtown in the morning, it ends up being a mess.
Could also easily happen in a system that’s entirely hub and spoke without any lines that meaningfully cross each other, particularly if buses come 30+ minutes apart. So, going to a neighborhood that’s not between your location and city center can take forever speaking from experience.
Two hours and forty-four minutes of transfers between buses instead of eight minutes of driving like Automobile Jesus intended? Blasphemy, I say.
Mine assumes you’ll take an uber to the nearest train station, which takes 1:10 and $23. Without the uber your only alternative is to walk for 2-3 hours (or cycle if you’re feeling brave).
Oh, and this is Texas so it’ll be boiling hot at least 7 months out of the year.
Driving was one of the first scamcriptions. I thought I had escaped by bike. I lasted 4 years of full time commuting before the horror film level infrastructure disabled me crossing paths with a third grade equivalent competency person.
The shit show to get to work for me in a major U.S. city, living ass deep in the city limits:
Trying to switch to an ebike where I can, just ordered the parts. Hopefully it will make this massive ass hill a little easier.
This is mine,
I have an e-bike so it’s not problem.
Looks fairly similar. That gives me hope that the conversion will do what I want.
Out of curiosity, what type of motor/battery are you using?
48V 10 Ah lithium battery with a 350W motor.
It’s already have 3500Km of use and the battery is slowing down. I could used it 40 km before needing to charge, nowadays I’m worried when I had to do more than 25. But is enough for going and coming back from work, and the office bike park have energy outlets so I can take the charger to work when I’m worry about it.
I’m going with a 48V 13Ah battery and a 500W motor, and it’s a mid drive. So I should definitely be in a good spot if yours is doing well for you.
And my battery is removable, so I’ll be able to charge it at my desk which will be nice.
This is my daily commute:
There’s literally no option for public transit, because I live near one rail system, and my work is near an entirely separate rail system. The two aren’t connected at all, so there’s no way for me to transition in between the two. Making a transfer between the two literally takes longer than simply walking to work, because the two closest stations are farther apart than where I live compared to my job.
What surprises me the most in yours and the OP is how much longer the walking and biking are comparatively. I picked a random spot 11min drive away from my house for comparison:
And I’m in the “countryside” of the Netherlands, no trains, trams or anything like this here and bus station is already like 10/15min walk.
I expect the public transit craziness but why is walking/biking that much more?
