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They could take public transit and spend three hours one way commuting to their eight hour shift.
I will be going back to the office soon. It is crap.
I could walk about seven blocks to a train, take it to central station, transfer to a different train which has a stop about two miles from my office in a non-walkable place (less so if it's raining, snowing, etc). I would then have to take an uber those last two miles.
I mapped it out, it's about a 1.5 hour adventure each way, three hours total if nothing goes wrong. Still going to get wet on the walk to work if it's raining/snowing for that seven block walk.
Or I can drive 40 minutes one way. While I do not enjoy paying for gas or contributing to pollution, I would not held hostage to that commute. Also, when I need to pick up someone in my family, grab something at the grocery store, etc now I'd have to go home, get the car and head back out anyway vs just doing it on the way home.
I would love to be able to do the trip end to end in a reasonable time, but it just isn't possible. Now had work not closed their downtown office and relocated to the fucking sticks, I would have had a train stop at the end of the block and a 20 min train ride on either end. Good thing the corp is saving lots of money by putting out in central bumfuck where the rent is cheaper. Thanks for that.
I do two hoursand it's rough. My bus route is a good cannidate for bus lanes and high frequency, though they're not gonna run more than once an hour in the early AM because I'm an edge case