I wish something like this would work near me, but I don’t know how it will. The nearest city doesn’t pay enough for a minimum wage worker to live within the city, but also lets low paying jobs discriminate against people who use the bus or a bike to commute because it’s “not reliable transportation”.
I’ve been out of work for a few years now because I get randomly dizzy and refuse to drive, but that’s made me unemployable.
Neither are a lot of people’s cars. I’ve personally been known to buy beaters that should’ve long been discarded and keep them running for a few more years, sometimes they even leave me in better condition than they came to me but that’s because I need to repair them because they have a tendency to develop issues after hundreds of thousands of kilometers (current one actually isn’t even that old, only a bit above 400k km). Usually issues that don’t leave me stranded, but still issues that can take a week or 2 worth of nights to fix as a single dad who can’t work on his car until the toddler’s asleep.
I’ve had breakdowns on bikes too (my legs have too much torque and I dislike shifting down all the time to accelerate so I’ve literally broken a bunch of pedals among other things), but bike repairs are quick and cheap. And when the bus breaks down, a replacement one is sent - something I’ve experienced multiple times in my life.
So I wonder in what universe would a bike or bus be a less reliable method of transportation than a car, unless it’s also specified that the car must be max 5 years old or something.
Yeah, you get fired for having an unreliable car too. I lost a job once because my beater broke down after work Friday, and I couldn’t get another one by my shift on Saturday. You can’t even register a car over the weekend, because the government doesn’t work weekends.
It doesn’t help that the last bus home leaves the station at 6pm, but low-income jobs require flexible scheduling so you can do clopening shifts. I’ve been advocating for bus expansion for the past fifteen years, and keep running into the neolib bullshit about how urban areas “deserve” transit because they’ve got money and I don’t.
I would bike to work, but there’s not even shoulders on the two-lane highway that connects the rural area to the urban area.
I wish something like this would work near me, but I don’t know how it will. The nearest city doesn’t pay enough for a minimum wage worker to live within the city, but also lets low paying jobs discriminate against people who use the bus or a bike to commute because it’s “not reliable transportation”.
I’ve been out of work for a few years now because I get randomly dizzy and refuse to drive, but that’s made me unemployable.
Neither are a lot of people’s cars. I’ve personally been known to buy beaters that should’ve long been discarded and keep them running for a few more years, sometimes they even leave me in better condition than they came to me but that’s because I need to repair them because they have a tendency to develop issues after hundreds of thousands of kilometers (current one actually isn’t even that old, only a bit above 400k km). Usually issues that don’t leave me stranded, but still issues that can take a week or 2 worth of nights to fix as a single dad who can’t work on his car until the toddler’s asleep.
I’ve had breakdowns on bikes too (my legs have too much torque and I dislike shifting down all the time to accelerate so I’ve literally broken a bunch of pedals among other things), but bike repairs are quick and cheap. And when the bus breaks down, a replacement one is sent - something I’ve experienced multiple times in my life.
So I wonder in what universe would a bike or bus be a less reliable method of transportation than a car, unless it’s also specified that the car must be max 5 years old or something.
Yeah, you get fired for having an unreliable car too. I lost a job once because my beater broke down after work Friday, and I couldn’t get another one by my shift on Saturday. You can’t even register a car over the weekend, because the government doesn’t work weekends.
It doesn’t help that the last bus home leaves the station at 6pm, but low-income jobs require flexible scheduling so you can do clopening shifts. I’ve been advocating for bus expansion for the past fifteen years, and keep running into the neolib bullshit about how urban areas “deserve” transit because they’ve got money and I don’t.
I would bike to work, but there’s not even shoulders on the two-lane highway that connects the rural area to the urban area.