Do you ride transit on a regular basis?

[OGTSO]

Originally Posted by Carlite

You may want to snop sneering long enough to think about what you're going to do as gas hits $6, $7, $8 a gallon, with possible spot shortages.

Charles' answer in post #5 (since you seem to have missed it) was:

Originally Posted by Charles

I get about 16MPG and drive about 18 miles to work, say two gallons at $4.25 that's $8.50 in 22 minutes in the morning and maybe 30 minutes in the PM, call it an hour. So I conveniently get to work for the cost of less than $10 and about one hour. Plus I have the freedom to deviate my route (which I do about 2/3s of the time to run errands or pick up kids at soccer practice, (stop at my girlfriends before my wife finds out..jk...).

According to Google Maps we're talking 90 minutes minimum one way, or an extra two hours a day of driving or about half of my disposable time a day. Those are valuable hours.

So, If gas doubled my cost would go to $17/day and I might get home faster since traffic might go down 10%.

If it tripled, then that's about $26 a day.

If it quadrupled ($18/gallon), that's about $34 a day. Maybe I'm thinking about it.

I agree with Charles' post above. Gasoline would have to get very expensive to force people to use public transportation.

To the OP- I grew up in Orange County and have never used a bus for transportation, except when I was forced to use the bus in elementary and junior high school. When I got to high school I walked and/or rode my bicycle.

Originally Posted by Mel2882

When I lived in Chicago, I took the bus to and from work everyday. It took about 45 minutes each way, which was fine. By car it would've taken about 15, but I didn't mind the ride (especially since I didn't have to worry about defrosting my car or shoveling it out of the snow, etc.).

The weather is too nice in Orange County to force any use of the bus for weather concerns such as snow and ice.

[CAVA1990]

The main impedient to bus use is the time factor. You can attract more affluent users where you have express service to a major job center or rail station from a single point like a commuter parking lot. What most people won't put up with is a milk run type of service.

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by CAVA1990

The main impedient to bus use is the time factor. You can attract more affluent users where you have express service to a major job center or rail station from a single point like a commuter parking lot. What most people won't put up with is a milk run type of service.

Even and express bus will still be subject to the same traffic conditions as someone driving themselves so it'll never be faster than driving.

[CAVA1990]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

Even and express bus will still be subject to the same traffic conditions as someone driving themselves so it'll never be faster than driving.

It will if you have HOV or bus only lanes. Did you get rid of all that after I left?

[jacobwilliam77]

According to the US census only 3% of OC residents use public transportation.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by jacobwilliam77

According to the US census only 3% of OC residents use public transportation.

Does the census count illegal aliens?