They’re thinking of removing my bus route

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Lyft and Uber can be pretty expensive, but it may help with just getting to the bus stop...if it would be a 2 hour walk then it wouldn't be very long at all by vehicle.

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If you can, bike

Might not be practical because of weather, injury, heavy traffic, whatever

I did but it took me weeks before I went to it and they only clearify their plans on the survey not the pamphlet, so most people probably won’t do it, never seen anyone else paying attention to it at the station. And then they might be like ok I don’t live there so I’ll take cheaper fares .

Last edited by sly279 on 02 Mar 2019, 1:30 am, edited 1 time in total.

It’d be $16 a day to get to bus stop and back. $192 a month. That’s my whole budget. So I couldn’t get food or bus pass. Also Uber drivers hate such trips as they don’t make money so they wouldn’t do it.
If my sister won’t be able to give me ride I’ll just have to quit. Won’t be able to work again if this happens.

in terms of distance, how far away is your work from your house?

Well damn, I hope they don't eliminate your bus stop....doesn't seem they even have any good reason.

Yeah I wouldn't be putting my hand up for 5 hours travel time per day either. I had to travel 1 to 1.5 hours to and from high school by bus and even that isn't something I'm particularly keen to repeat. I have significant barriers in terms of getting a car/license though and I'm unsure if I ever even will do so. Fortunately for me, my work is a 10-15 minute bike ride away.

Eliminating 1/3 of my city would allow them to offer buses 7 mins apart in Eugene as well as make buses cheaper in Eugene which they say would increase business access by 14%. So it’s all about money, I’m sure businesses are bribing the council.
They getting an increase in federal funding, so they’re going habe more money then they do now, so why would they need to cut services?

7 miles but it’s not straight. It’d take me few hours one way to rid bike there but I couldn’t make that and if I did I’d be super exhausted and smelly.
I work 4 hours a day, 12 a week.
As is I spend 12 hours on bus a week. If this happens and I had to walk I’d be spending 18 hours to get to work to work 12 hours. Just doesn’t make sense. And if I had to use Uber or taxi I’d be losing money. It’d be $50 a day to go to work by Uber or taxi. I get about $16 a day after everything.
Atleast it won’t happen until Jan 2020, so I’ll get one last year of work.

Ideally I’d work closer, but noone will hire a disabled person who can only work 16 hours a week.

They should create better train service here in the states....but well it gets complicated I guess. Like for a while they were gonna complete some lightrail train, the finished it way after the time it should have maybe been completed. And then things were not set straight as far as quiet zones and things like that. So until me and my boyfriend moved out of our old place it was constant loud blaring light rail horns every 10 minutes as soon as they finished the thing, because there was some big excuse why they couldn't set a quiet zone through the area.

The only excuse offered was, 'oh we just want to get you guys used to the train' meanwhile people who have work in the morning are super pissed that every 10 minutes a light rail train honks excessively as if there was a child on board just randomly slamming the horn. They where seriously testing it for weeks with excessive horns blasting every 10 minutes till 3 am for like weeks.

Yeah, I get it. I wouldn't ride 7 miles to and from work everyday either, though that ride is probably more like 1 to 1.5 hours, 2 hours at most if you're riding slowly. I would have suggested something more along the lines of an electric bike so you don't have to exert any energy or pay for fuel if the distance was more reasonable. And I completely get not wanting to fork out money on ubers or taxis, especially if you're not making much at work. I used to mostly get ubers to and from work, which is about 2 miles away, to save me from having to walk, but I actually enjoy bike riding and it's obviously more economically efficient than getting ubers everyday, so for me it was a good solution to get an electric bike.

Only having the capacity to work 16 hour weeks does make things difficult, especially if you don't have much in the way of qualifications and are not in a city with good public transport options. What I would recommend is that since you know that this job has the potential to become unviable in a year's time, you could keep an eye on the employment websites for part-time work and see if you can find another job that is closer and more accessible.

One thing I wanted to ask is what is it that prevents you from being able to work full-time or more hours? What would happen if you tried to work a 30 hour week? I'm not saying that you can or should work a 30 hour week, I'm merely curious about what interferes with your capacity to do that, and what would happen if you tried.

The United States used to have the best rail network in the world. It's unfortunate what happened.

My rich great uncle in Melbourne is about 60 but he rides 22 km to work every day and 22 km back. And he works long hours. He's some sort of high ranking engineer. Did I mention he's rich? I hate him because he's too energetic by far. All four of his sons are very successful. I hate them as well. Those high energy people make people like me look bad in comparison. They're probably judging me for not being like them.

Many of the rail lines are still owned by the railroads so those lines could come back.

Change happens. Deal with it as best you can.

I went without a car for 2 years, and without a drivers license for a year.

I had to jog or cycle 15km (9 miles) roundtrip to pay my phone bill & get groceries - but I could only get what I could carry in my small backpack, so less than 2 bags worth. I did a Lot of walking, jogging, cycling. I worked close to home for a while.

During another stint of public transit use it took me 2 hours to get to work in the morning, and 3-4 hours to get home in the evening, 5 days a week, for 5 months. It was exhausting (so I bought a $700 car).

Where I live, there are no busses on or near my street after ~8pm, so if I was coming home in the later evening (fairly often) the closest buses were either 4km or 7km away and I would walk. (each one came hourly, but staggered 30mins apart. I could wait the extra half hour for the closer one, or just walk in about the same time and be home.) Sometimes I would take my bicycle and then roll home - it became a necessity during the stint I worked up to 98h/week as I was so exhausted I could Not walk home; had to hop on my bike and roll to make it/have the breeze keep my eyes open. I literally passed out standing up on the train and damned near fell over with my bike, once. Oops.

Get an inexpensive used bicycle, sly. They're 3x as efficient as walking - so instead of walking 40-60mins to the bus you'll cycle only 13-20mins. Lock it up to a sign or fence post near your stop, as others likely do, hop the bus and go about your work and life, and then return the same way. One can typically find a working bicycle for as little as $40-60, or a brand new very basic one for as little as $100-200. They're an excellent transportation tool, and have the added bonus of a little extra exercise, as well as freedom of mobility considering you can now travel a 3x farther radius than walking alone might otherwise allow in the same amount of time & calories burnt. Mechanical advantage, sly. Utilize it!