All else being equal, getting places faster is better. Remember, most people don’t have jobs where they are paid to be “in the zone” three or four hours a day. They spend eight hours processing loan applications or serving customers.
The average public transit commute in most cities is twice as long as the average driving commute: https://abc7news.com/5289025
> The study found San Diego had the nation's shortest commute times with an average of just 26 minutes by car, but 52 minutes by public transit.
That’s an hour a day (total) that public transit commuters aren’t spending with their families.
Even during rush hour in DC, it’s slightly faster for me to get to work driving clear across the city instead of getting on at the rail station at the edge of the city and taking a train straight to the station 8 minutes from my office.
The average public transit commute in most cities is twice as long as the average driving commute: https://abc7news.com/5289025
> The study found San Diego had the nation's shortest commute times with an average of just 26 minutes by car, but 52 minutes by public transit.
That’s an hour a day (total) that public transit commuters aren’t spending with their families.
Even during rush hour in DC, it’s slightly faster for me to get to work driving clear across the city instead of getting on at the rail station at the edge of the city and taking a train straight to the station 8 minutes from my office.