hobbsyoyo
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That all sounds lovely and almost unfathomable over here. I attended community college near St Louis and received a free metrolink transit card (the light rail system) and I was only able to use it twice in four years.yeah same here. I use train for everything, going to uni 3x a week which is a total of ~12 hours of commuting, then I drive around Offenbach for free, Frankfurt for free, can go back and visit my parents or my sister for as much as 15 bucks, even with crossing state lines, and also use buses a whole lot to get around the city. I can essentially drive to any city and take any metro everywhere in my state, for free. it's included in the student ticket, which is ~280 per months, about 100 or so I figure go for the ticket alone. that's 17 bucks per month for all of my transportation. no car can compete with that. I don't even bicycle for the most part, I just walk. I really like walking.
The light rail system went in a nearly straight line east to west through about half of the city's diameter and did not service many neighborhoods or destinations. One of the trips I took was to an art museum to do research for a paper and it involved a 30 mile / 30 minute drive to a station, a half hour going maybe 10 miles on the train and then 2 connecting buses which took another hour. I only lived 12 miles from the city center to begin with and if I had wanted to use only the public transportation system from within walking distance of my home, it would have been an 8 hour round trip journey which wouldn't leave me any time to actually visit the museum. St Louis is a major city here and I think the shambles that is its transportation system is more indicative of most of the rest of the country than along the major cities of the northeastern seaboard which have much more developed public transit networks.
Anyways, the bus links on that metro ride were not included with my metro card and were a bit expensive for the distance traveled/inconvenience involved and that, plus the gas and time I spent getting to a station made the trip cost-inefficient. I knew that going in though and made the trip that way more or less to see what public transit was like. Oh and the school cancelled the free metro cards soon thereafter as a cost cutting measure, which figures.
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