I remember why I don’t like commuting via public transit:
It takes forever.
I left my house this morning at 6:45. I got to work at 10:00. Now, granted, had I not gotten on the wrong bus and had to double back, I would have gotten there by 9:00. That’s still two full hours on public transit.
I’ll tell you, though, it’s far better than the way I was doing public transit before. Palm Tran Route 40 to the West Palm Beach Intramodal Transit Station (whew!) is not even a quarter full–unlike Route 62, which is always jam-packed. It also doesn’t do that whole stop-every-200-feet thing to let more people on and off.
I got a whole bunch of e-books for my Storm and enjoyed reading a book (such as it is), for a change during my commute. Heck, I have two hours to fill, after all… I can’t work during all of them…
Wow. Two hours each way. That’s four hours a day, 20 hours a week, roughly 86.5 hours a month, or 1,040 hours a year. Or, 43.3 days.
Just commuting to and from work.
Wow.
Of course, if I drove, my commute is about an 45 minutes. That’s about 390 hours a year, or 16 days.
