Lemmy: Cars are a plague and shouldn't exist, communities need functional public transit

Also Lemmy: Someone used public transit when they could have walked? Pathetic.

To be clear, this did not happen at all

Wall-E is the future.

Do you take the escalator, or do you walk up the stairs ?

What a weakling you are for choosing the escalator.

Edit :

It seems that the irony got lost : most people just take the escalator for a mere 50 steps, just as most people would just take the bus if it's convenient. So all people in this thread shaming her are quite ridiculous.

As for me, I take the stairs instead of the elevator daily (5th floor) and wouldn't get on the bus because I have strong social anxiety.

My university was literally all uphill from dorms with traffic and 90 degree heat. You took the fucking bus.

Fwiw as far as the reasonableness of taking a bus 1 mile, that's 16 minutes at a brisk walk. Less at a very fast walk. Depending on traffic, number of stops, etc., a bus could take about 10 minutes to go the same distance, probably less. So you're definitely saving time, even if it's not a huge amount. You're also saving effort and sweat, depending on how fast you go and the weather.

When I was in uni, I would regularly walk the 1.2 km to campus. But I would catch a bus the 1.8 km (remembering that a mile is 1.6) to the shops. Because it's a hot unshaded route with a significant uphill. Plus I had to carry the shopping. Whereas the walk to uni was flat, shady, and I rarely had to carry more than just a laptop. And also there literally wasn't a bus that could take me.

So yeah, depending on how all the specifics fit together, I don't see anything wrong with taking a bus 1.6 km.

In the Netherlands, students get free public transport. If there's a bus coming that you can use for free, why not?

I'm sure the physically disabled students at that college appreciate you letting them know that you think one mile is too short for a bus ride

I don't know why everyone's going on about weather. 1 mile is a 20 minute walk. A bus can do it in 5. That's huge time savings regardless of the weather.

I actually did this at my US college.

I could take the bus which went 1 mile in 5 min which stopped outside my student apt complex.

Or I could walk for 45min along sidewalks around a couple city blocks and effectively walk like 4 miles to go one mile because there was no direct walking path through the residential neighborhood between my apartment and my college.

I wish I was lying

Fiction or American.

Not really. I used to take a bus every day to get to the metro station for a distance of only 1.5 km (0.93 mi). But to be fair it's because I was always on a tight schedule.

When I was 330 lbs. (150kg) it would take me 30 minutes to walk a mile, and I would be post-exercise dumb for at least 30 more. You don't want to the post-exercise dumb for class (taking or teaching).

Now (225 lbs. [~102kg]), it would still take me about 15 minutes to walk it, tho at that pace my HR wouldn't significantly increase, and I might decide to take the bus instead, if there's any sort of weather.

???? Free college buses around campus in the winter time is dope what's the problem

If it's a campus bus it's almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.

Colleges love to flex their local bus service. Especially if it’s a big campus in the north.

Free bus and constant buses arriving? Why not.

Eh, 1 mile is pretty far when carrying a heavy backpack. If it's free, I'd take the bus.

Why? Do you live in america or something where bus infrastructure is bad?

Does it feel better if you say it's a shuttle instead?

What did you do exactly, if you don’t mind us asking?