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MsDemeanor · 06-09-2010, 04:08 PM

Lazy people? Seriously? We have a governor who touts himself as "green", then slashes public transportation budgets every year - green my ass. State and federal governments funnel money in to highways and strip it from transit. Can't use mass transit if it isn't there. We had to drive in to the City last night; I'd love to have taken the ferry, but the ferry doesn't run at night. When I lived in LA, there were lots of buses, but the schedules were fucked up. My 75 minute bus commute became a 10 minute drive when I got a car. Don't even get me started on my years of commuting by bus in college, where - in both directions - the bus I needed to transfer to came through the intersection five minutes before the bus I started on. 90 minutes on the bus, 30 minutes in a car. I had to do that bus shit five days a week for two years until I could afford a car.

One a personal level, the area where I live has decent mass transit, but it's a mile up a steep hill to my home from the nearest bus stop. From that bus stop, it's only two miles to the area where I do most of my shopping. Not wanting to tote bags of dog food and groceries and supplies on to a bus for a two mile ride and then carry them on foot up a steep mile isn't lazy.

BTW, these are all in urban areas....

06-09-2010, 04:08 PM	#19
MsDemeanor Member How Do You Identify?: queer stone femme Relationship Status: Happily married to MisterMeanor, the man of my dreams Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: SF Bay Area Posts: 703 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 165 Thanked 1,852 Times in 511 Posts Rep Power: 2698180	Lazy people? Seriously? We have a governor who touts himself as "green", then slashes public transportation budgets every year - green my ass. State and federal governments funnel money in to highways and strip it from transit. Can't use mass transit if it isn't there. We had to drive in to the City last night; I'd love to have taken the ferry, but the ferry doesn't run at night. When I lived in LA, there were lots of buses, but the schedules were fucked up. My 75 minute bus commute became a 10 minute drive when I got a car. Don't even get me started on my years of commuting by bus in college, where - in both directions - the bus I needed to transfer to came through the intersection five minutes before the bus I started on. 90 minutes on the bus, 30 minutes in a car. I had to do that bus shit five days a week for two years until I could afford a car. One a personal level, the area where I live has decent mass transit, but it's a mile up a steep hill to my home from the nearest bus stop. From that bus stop, it's only two miles to the area where I do most of my shopping. Not wanting to tote bags of dog food and groceries and supplies on to a bus for a two mile ride and then carry them on foot up a steep mile isn't lazy. BTW, these are all in urban areas.... __________________ artisan jewelry jewelry gallery Last edited by MsDemeanor; 06-09-2010 at 04:12 PM.