Sorry, what?? Taking the bus is cheaper than owning a car.
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birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Waiting for buses is not poverty. Being in traffic jams and stuck to using a car is, however.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 13 hours ago
taking the bus is cheaper than owning a car. I actually took the statement to more mean that you have to go to places like the assitance office in person and its located whereever which for some means some crazy transfers and such that makes it an all day and long day affair.
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Besides the point. Having no choice but to wait for the hourly bus could be one of the many time stealers of your poor.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
… buses don’t come hourly there. They come far more often.
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Where do buses come far more often? Do you think everyone lives in the middle of a big city with working transit? Also no one said driving a car is good or a sign of wealth. Your right about cars being shitty, but that does not contradict the point which is made in the posted screenshot.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
The only reason I got my driver’s license is because the bus was over an hour late and I missed an interview. The transit agency had the gall to tell me that I should have taken the 6am bus for a noon appointment if it was so important the 9am bus was on time.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
Most people do live in cities, yes. I live in a town with like ‘only’ 20k people and yet there’s decent public transit.
Cars and their lobbies are the problem.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
If you can afford a car to begin with you are already at a different level of broke than people stuck taking the bus even when transit is shitty and comes once an hour. Waiting an hour for a bus each way for your daily commute is nothing like spending a few minutes in a traffic jam (which the bus would also be subject to!) or looking for a parking spot.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
Adding an hour-long commute turns an 8 hour day into a 10 hour day, for no extra pay. A $25/hr job turns into a $20/hr job.
For the bus rider, avoiding that “commuter tax” strictly limits employment options to those employers on the same line(s) as their home. Adding a transfer slashes the hourly rate even faster.
Further, those bus lines only operate in dense urban areas, where housing costs are also at an exorbitant premium for the space acquired.
The driver can choose to work in less dense areas, where traffic jams simply don’t occur, parking is easy to find, and housing costs are considerably lower. The bus rider can’t: buses tend not to serve such areas.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
A few minutes in a traffic jam? Pah, that isn’t a traffic jam. They last for far longer.
I never need to wait an hour for a bus - at most it’s 20 min and that’s late in the evening.
I think it’s a big sign of societal poverty when people are condemned to cars!