• MrMakabar@slrpnk.net
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    1 day ago

    Do you not have digital tickets of some form?

    Also light rail is not that fast. So if you have to wait a long time, you are probably better off riding a bicycle. Obviously infrastructure permitting. Your description sounds like that should be possible in a bit more then an hour, but I have obviously no idea where you live and your work is, so can not honestly judge. Just wanted to throw that out there.

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      No digital tickets when I was doing it (5 years ago). It’s a major metro, but the government here doesn’t take it seriously; they treat it as poor transport.

      Can’t bike through the center of the city safely, no bike lanes. Many streets north and south of the city don’t even have shoulders.

      40km each way, average summer temps in the 30’s

      To bike, I’d need to move closer to work, I’d still sweat my ass off and show up stinky. Also, I can’t be sure I’d get employment near there if anything happened. Needing to sell my house everytime I change jobs seems like a rough time.

      We’re just not architected for it. Busses take even longer and are more unpredictable.