FWIW, not to say that driving is better, but it’s not like taking public transit to an unfamiliar place doesn’t also have its own anxieties. How frequently does it run, how reliable is the schedule, how many transfers will I have to make, how close can it bring me to my destination/how walkable is the neighborhood, etc.
The world would be perfect if everything you needed was within biking distance.
american public transit = busses dont run after 1:26pm, the last train is also the first train, there are no bike racks, and there are 4 parking spots.
I search either parking or public transport or both to see how to move around the places I go, to every place I wanna visit. I find it crazy that people don’t to this, it’s not even anxiety it’s common sense. I have limited time there and if I can’t go to X because I didn’t plan I would have wasted so much money and time it isn’t even funny.
Ugh, so true. Bus routes in my area are designed and timed for when traffic was likely 10-20℅ OK, let’s be generous and say “less than half” of what street traffic is currently. Buses will skip stops just to make the terminal time work. Gotta be somewhere on time? Good luck.
The metro is better, sure but just hope there’s no… Well, I don’t want to doxx myself, but suffice it to say it’s not perfect, either.
Most of my anxiety on public transit comes from people and getting off at the right time. That anxiety is unrelated to whether it is at home or somewhere far away that I haven’t been yet.
When I’m going somewhere far away that I haven’t been yet I just know I won’t be home when my ticket says and I might need to hurry to get the connecting train. For short distances I walk or take a bike to avoid buses.
We have an express line that runs at least every 15 minutes from one side to the other, it’s awesome, I wouldn’t consider getting on another one of our buses though and it’s free for me.
In the US I definitely do, which in addition to the place I live just not being very bike-friendly, is a contributing reason why I regrettably don’t take my bike out all that much here.
When I used to live in Fuzhou, though, a bike was the easiest way to get around…as long as you never needed to leave the city. I kept it locked up when I went places, so I wasn’t too worried about it being stolen, but I’d probably need to get a more durable lock if I used a bike the same way in the US as I did there.
FWIW, not to say that driving is better, but it’s not like taking public transit to an unfamiliar place doesn’t also have its own anxieties. How frequently does it run, how reliable is the schedule, how many transfers will I have to make, how close can it bring me to my destination/how walkable is the neighborhood, etc.
The world would be perfect if everything you needed was within biking distance.
american public transit = busses dont run after 1:26pm, the last train is also the first train, there are no bike racks, and there are 4 parking spots.
choose wisely :p
Also one person is parking in two of the spots.
I search either parking or public transport or both to see how to move around the places I go, to every place I wanna visit. I find it crazy that people don’t to this, it’s not even anxiety it’s common sense. I have limited time there and if I can’t go to X because I didn’t plan I would have wasted so much money and time it isn’t even funny.
Ugh, so true. Bus routes in my area are designed and timed for when traffic was likely
10-20℅OK, let’s be generous and say “less than half” of what street traffic is currently. Buses will skip stops just to make the terminal time work. Gotta be somewhere on time? Good luck.The metro is better, sure but just hope there’s no… Well, I don’t want to doxx myself, but suffice it to say it’s not perfect, either.
“The world would be perfect if everything you needed was within biking distance.”
We have this in the Netherlands but I still wouldn’t call it a perfect world, to be fair.
Most of my anxiety on public transit comes from people and getting off at the right time. That anxiety is unrelated to whether it is at home or somewhere far away that I haven’t been yet.
When I’m going somewhere far away that I haven’t been yet I just know I won’t be home when my ticket says and I might need to hurry to get the connecting train. For short distances I walk or take a bike to avoid buses.
We have an express line that runs at least every 15 minutes from one side to the other, it’s awesome, I wouldn’t consider getting on another one of our buses though and it’s free for me.
Do you not worry about a safe place to keep your bicycle when you get somewhere?
In the US I definitely do, which in addition to the place I live just not being very bike-friendly, is a contributing reason why I regrettably don’t take my bike out all that much here.
When I used to live in Fuzhou, though, a bike was the easiest way to get around…as long as you never needed to leave the city. I kept it locked up when I went places, so I wasn’t too worried about it being stolen, but I’d probably need to get a more durable lock if I used a bike the same way in the US as I did there.