Originally Posted by
jimmie65
Mass transit at least provides options.
indeed.
and i'm glad that i live in a city that has a fairly decent transit system, but the way that the CTA operates can just be maddening at times. like when you're waiting at a bus stop for 20 agonizing minutes, and then, boom, all of a sudden 3 buses all show up at once. why don't they just space the buses out so that they have one bus every 6 minutes instead of 3 buses every 20 minutes? or when you're trying to get to work at "rush" hour and you have not one, but two 15 minute waits standing around on train platforms like an idiot when trains should ideally be spaced no more than 5 minutes apart at that time of day when millions of people are trying to get places.
it's crap like that that can drive you nuts, especially when you know how much more time-efficient it is to get around town on a bike.
transit isn't bad per se, it's just that bike commuting has sapped a lot of my patience for dealing with it, particularly when things go off the rails (get it?), as they so often do with the CTA.