They’re thinking of removing my bus route

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I won’t be able to go anywhere or to work without having to walk 40mins to hour to get to the bus.

living in a detached block, i perfectly understand the problem, sly. tho u wrote "thinking about" so it MIGHT not happen yet. try to lay off the worry till u know for sure, i know its very hard. hugs.

But does it lead to a more direct bus to work?

That walk will help you lose weight...…

I understand the walk would be more difficult if it were on a big route with lots of malls.

It is a class divide where I live. A lot of middle/upper class folks don't like the idea of bus service for adults coming to their neighborhoods. I like the idea of bus service but haven't used it in many years.

It takes me 2-1/2 hours to get to work travelling on crowded public transportation.
It takes me 35 minutes to get to work travelling alone by private vehicle.
I haven't used public transportation in over 30 years.

When I slept over at my wife's job (she was a live-in babysitter), I would either walk or run the three miles to the railroad station.

If I lived three miles from my job, I would walk it every day.

Just to offer some advice, my friend nick had the same issues, city buses really suck! A way to get around it for the most part is to get a scooter. They are much cheaper than cars, the insurance is typically about $20 a month, to get the license to drive it is about $20(past vehicle license points and offenses do not apply to motorcycle license) and the are good on gas(a little bit gets you a long way). The only downside is poor driving conditions(high winds, rain sleet or snow). Equally, that's going to suck while trying to walk to a buss stop anyway. On average you will get to work much sooner while also avoiding the anxiety of being around others on the buss(it always gave me anxiety). You can get a brand new scooter capable of going 60mph for under $1000, just take care of it(oil changes as directed) and use it for short travel and it should last a long time.

That's what I had to do in my last job after they cut the direct bus route through the village I lived in - the next nearest route was about 2 1/2 miles away, and that was walking cross-country through fields, with a lovely 350ft climb for the last quarter mile! Driving/cycling isn't an option for me, as my attentional/sensory traits make me a danger to myself and other road users. Thankfully, I much prefer walking to the sensory overload of being in a vehicle; but there were days, slogging up that hill in driving sleet, that I cursed having to do it. I once calculated that my commuting amounted to roughly 1000 miles per year of walking!

The buses around here are terrible now. The routes have been cut back to the bone, and the last bus even on busy urban routes is often as early as 9 p.m - no doubt the local taxi companies are delighted!

So yeah, I can well understand why sly is dreading it.

They’re doing a survey on it then will decide. They want to abandoned Springfield it seems to make buses more frequent and cheaper for Eugene. They’re suppose to server the whole county not just one city.

I’m not adding an hour walking to an already 2 hour trip there. And I won’t walk back at night. If my sister won’t be able to drive me to station and back I’ll just have to quit.
The bus service is fine I don’t get why they have to f**k with it. They getting millions of dollars funding from government so they don’t have to change anything.
Not to mention I’d arrive to work covered in sweat and smelling and have rashes.

No it doesn’t lead to more direct rout. The rout is same it just stops 2 miles from my house rather then going though my neighborhood, it’ll also be cutting off 6 schools and loads of kids ride the bus as well as the school district pays them millions to provide every kid with bus pass.

They want to make the buses in Eugene come slightly faster and cut the far cost.
$50 for month or $3.50 isn’t bad I think. And as is the buses in Eugene run every 15-20 mins they don’t need to cut out thousands of peoples bus access so they can come every 7 mins.

I hope they don't remove the bus route.

it sounds like a terribly unreasonable thing to do...

It's the other way around for me. Where I live the peak hour traffic is dreadful but it has no effect on the trains.

Carpool

Lyft

Uber

Sometimes, it is snowing, dangerous, or you are too injured to walk.

When I walked a mile to work the weather made no difference in how long it took. 20 minutes. Even in a blizzard with little visibility. I knew plenty of landmarks along the way.

Is there any way to give your input in this survey? That really does sound crappy..I'd be surprised if you are the only person upset by this.