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Originally Posted by bcrdukes
That's just terrible.
My daily round trip commute is about 70KM per day. On average, it takes me about 45 minutes each way (on a good day) and on a bad day, it's between 1 to 1.5 hours. Should I ever go to the Downtown office, a commute is at minimum 45 minutes to an hour. It would take me 1.5 hours to get home by car over a distance of 9KM. Transit would take about the same time so there was no winning.
I thought about moving closer to work, but even the traffic near the office would take 45 minutes, so fuck that.  |
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes
Riding to my primary office is not an option. I've done it a few times, and let's just say, it's like riding with and against nothing but 18-wheelers - it just isn't safe, and there are no real alternatives. I'll ride Downtown on Fridays, but I try to avoid the Downtown office due to the time it takes.
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Traffic here makes no sense. It can take almost the exact same time for me to public transit, bike, or drive to work.
And I agree biking is really dangerous over here. Once you get close to downtown after surviving people going 80+ next to you without giving you space then you have to deal with getting cut off by Uber/Lyft drivers. Also the damn street car tracks. An Uber driver cut me off and my instant reaction was to swerve and then my front wheel got caught up in the street car track and i flipped head over handlebars and then slide a few feet. I now just bike casually on the weekends on trails.