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I'm PP and I agree that helps, but only so much when the bus only comes every 30 minutes.  It may not be possible to time leaving in the morning to the bus (e.g. the metro bus left right after the school bus and I couldn't afford to wait 30 minutes for the next one) and it is even harder to try to time things on the backend when a metro ride precedes catching the bus.  And of course the bus still take a good bit longer than driving yourself.

With the gps I have definitely been times I have used the bus in the morning when I had flexibility or got lucky.  If I got lucky on the backend, great, if not an uber home is about the same price as parking.  But it just isn't a viable alternative most days.

The cost to have the buses come every 5 or 10 minutes would be staggering and I still don't think demand would improve that much.[/quote]

There is a well-established, solid relationship between increased frequencies and increased use. Your own experiences explain why.

The costs of road construction are staggering. If we instead used that money for transit, bike lanes, and sidewalks, we could really get somewhere.[/quote]

My own experiences show how limited the effect of increased frequency would have on ridership.  Even if buses came every 5 minutes (which is wildly unrealistic) I still wouldn't use them that often.  It would still increase my commute time 10-20 minutes each way, even when I didn't have to pick up kids and/or take them to activities - neither of which could really be done via bus since they don't go there.  (Maybe I could theoretically piece together 2 to 3 buses each way to make it work, but the added time and hassle would be tremendous.)

As for the costs of roads, the 2 miles of roads I drive will still need to be there regardless and the added wear and tear is pretty minimal.

I'd love better transit and bike trails (biking would be an option for me occasionally) but your utopian vision that buses and bikes are going to become the main means of transportation if we just provide enough funding doesn't work in the real world.[/quote]

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