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I once did the LA transit ride from Thousand Oaks to Pasadena and back entirely by transit (40 mi one way by driving, transit was more circuitous than that). Mo
by gkuan 7y ago
I once did the LA transit ride from Thousand Oaks to Pasadena and back entirely by transit (40 mi one way by driving, transit was more circuitous than that). More frequently, I would take Thousand Oaks to Hollywood or Thousand Oaks to DTLA transit trips. The Red and Gold lines seem quite reasonable. Though short of something I would want to take daily given that I lived far away, it was still a lot less exhausting than trying to drive from Santa Monica to the other side of 405 during the afternoon. Now I’m in a different city and take transit daily.
- mayneack 7y ago40 miles is a pretty long commute. A modern city shouldn't be optimized to make that experience the norm. Most trips are much shorter.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoI moved to the bay area in 2006. Between then and now, each employer I've had was at least 30 miles away from the next.
- mayneack 7y agoThat makes you quite an outlier. 95% of trips are < 5 miles https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips https://nhts.ornl.gov/vehicle-trips I don't think we should optimize our cities for that.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoThey also report that under 17% of trips are for work, which is surprisingly low and seems like too much noise to learn much about the distribution of peak hour commuting distances. If I had a five mile commute, I would use surface streets. Congested highways are full of people going far enough in roughly that direction that even the congestion plus the first/last mile is faster than countless stoplights on the direct route.