shattyboombatty
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$44/week for train (Bart)
But I don't really drive much so it's not too bad
But I don't really drive much so it's not too bad
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how much do you spend/week on transportation
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goodcow said:
Habit and consequence of limited funds. In the past I didn't use the train enough to cover the cost of a monthly, whereas on certain weeks I rode the train *just* enough to buy a weekly. Couple that with the fact that before I often had too little money to put down that small chunk of money on a monthly and have enough to cover my other costs, I just settled on buying weeklies or $20(+$4 free). Nowadays I have regular work across the week and use the train on a regular basis and have more than enough to buy one.. so yeah, I should buy a monthly and break that old habit. I'll probably do so on Saturday when this weekly expires.
CurlySaysX
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Lets see..
AU$40/week for fuel
AU$350/year Insurance (au$7/week)
AU$500/year or less for maintenance of car (au$11/week)
Total $58/week or about US$45/week
AU$40/week for fuel
AU$350/year Insurance (au$7/week)
AU$500/year or less for maintenance of car (au$11/week)
Total $58/week or about US$45/week
shattyboombatty said:
haunts said:
BART contingent represent.. my daily trip is too short to use BART regularly, but when they change the peninsula service so that one line goes to SFO and one goes to Millbrae, that will make it faster for me so I might use it more often.. as it is, SamTrans gets the job done.
Tralfamadore64
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$30 for bus fare.
Car insurance is too expensive for me to justify driving.
Car insurance is too expensive for me to justify driving.
Tralfamadore64
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haunts said:
A month.
The thread title above the OP says /month, and I didn't notice that the actual thread title says /week.
It's $7.50/week and $30/month.
haunts said:
SamTrans serves the peninsula.. a monthly pass to get you from Palo Alto to San Francisco is $128 a month, which is competitive with Caltrain but not as fast. The high-end service I was speaking of goes from the San Joaquin valley (i.e. Stockton, Tracy) to the East Bay and peninsula.
sigh... car, gas, and insurance is probably around $700... my god it pains me to type that... ****...
a weekly bus pass here is $16. however in two years of running times and schedules data for mass transit I haven't found a single way for it to work without it consuming at least 3-4 hours of my day. If my time were worth $9/hour it still makes more sense for me to take my car than the bus. if I could cut it down to 2 hours a day, I would be much more comfortable spending 10 hours of my week knowing that I'm saving money and the environment. Unfortunately I don't care enough about either of those at 20 hours a week.
a weekly bus pass here is $16. however in two years of running times and schedules data for mass transit I haven't found a single way for it to work without it consuming at least 3-4 hours of my day. If my time were worth $9/hour it still makes more sense for me to take my car than the bus. if I could cut it down to 2 hours a day, I would be much more comfortable spending 10 hours of my week knowing that I'm saving money and the environment. Unfortunately I don't care enough about either of those at 20 hours a week.
Tralfamadore64
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I dunno... the route and my work schedule are such that I get off the bus right when it's time to be at work and get off work when it's time to catch the bus. I lose maybe an hour and a half of my day at most between riding and waiting and all, but I don't mind because I get a lot of my reading for the day done while riding, so I'm really not losing very much time at all when it's all said and done. I'm sure if I were to figure it up, it'd be about fifteen minutes of my day gone from walking to and from the bus itself.
heh.. I really wish this were the case. the bus ride alone is around 3 hours out of my day (and I only work 15 miles from home. gotta love insanely inefficient routes). to get to and from the route by my house would be about 10 minutes of walking. not bad at all. To get to and from the stop at work.... 1.5 miles each way. figure a brisk walk and you are still looking at 20 minutes each way. hopefully no rain or snow is falling. so 60 minutes of walking a day on top of a 3 hour bus ride...... sigh.... as I said, $700/month starts looking like not a big deal at that point...........Tralfamadore64 said:
~$115/month NJ Transit (train)
~$25/month PATH
Total of about 35 to 40 bucks a week.
It's not bad at all. I could take the car service home most nights and it's free, but I really prefer the train--my NJ Transit line is relaxing as hell--and they take roughly the same time.
~$25/month PATH
Total of about 35 to 40 bucks a week.
It's not bad at all. I could take the car service home most nights and it's free, but I really prefer the train--my NJ Transit line is relaxing as hell--and they take roughly the same time.
evil solrac v3.0
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$24 for a seven day metrocard.
Tralfamadore64
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borghe said:
Or if that's not your thing,
Just sayin'.
Really, though, if you want to drive, that's fine. I can't justify (or afford, for that matter) $700 extra a month, but if you can, then drive your heart out, my friend.
jamesinclair
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Mute said:
Theres no better offer.
15 a week or 59 a month. You save 1 dollar buying monthly, but monthly passes go from 1 of month to 31st, while weekly is from minute of purchase to 7 days from that minute. I can get by with 3 passes a month if I time things well.
It gets me on all buses (minus long distance express), and all subways, as well as some commuter rail lines within boston and some ferries
Sorry, forgot to mention that I run an online retail business outside of my regular job. So that 15 hours a week extra comes directly out of time I need to put into that. That's kind of what I was saying. There is no reason, living only 15 miles from work, that it should take me two hours to get there. Our mass transit system is so inefficient here. Bus stops on every other block (in many cases every block). Routes that instead of traveling on a relatively straight line will jaunt up and down as many as 20 blocks in either direction, directly overlapping with other routes. Routes traveling on smaller city streets with frequent stop signs or congestion. What's truly funny is that 90% of the metro area is laid out as a uniform grid. stick a bus route roughly every 15 blocks both N/S and E/W and have a stop at each route intersection. People will only have to walk at most maybe 7-12 blocks (GASP!!) and route times would be decreased by as much as 50%. Extend the routes further into the "new" suburbs (previously separate communities before extensive metropolitan crawl) and the business parks and we could have a seriously efficient and effective mass transit system with virtually little in the way of expenditure aside from educating the public. sigh...Tralfamadore64 said:
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