On Public Transportation

While I was interviewing by phone for my new job, I asked how to get there by bus. My interviewers laughed. “By bus?” they asked. “Surely you won’t be trying to come here without a car.” Well, that had been my original intention. After just two days of going to work (one driving a rental car and one taking the bus) I can certainly see what they mean. It’s not the route that makes the bus take so long. The routes that I take aren’t terribly different from one another—I imagine that driving that way I would only gain about ten to fifteen minutes. It’s just that buses are slow, and transfering between buses is tedious and time-consuming, particularly when you miss the hourly bus by about ten minutes.

The upshot of all this, of course, is that I’m getting a car.