10-08-2019, 07:16 PM
(10-08-2019, 03:08 PM)tomh009 Wrote: I'm not quite sure how you arrived at 14.
I used city hall since it's in the middle of DTK and took the average trip times Google Maps was reporting (10.5 minutes vs. 6+20+5 minutes) with an average of 20.5 working days per month. I also intentionally didn't include parking time since all travel time on the other end is highly dependent on the exact station or lot and ultimate destination.
The math in your comparison is a little off. The LRT trip you described adds up to 29 minutes, or 28 minutes' difference each day vs. the car trip. That makes it 9h20m longer than driving at 20 working days per month, or closer to 11 hours if you ride all the way to city hall. Either way it's a difficult case to make for many commuters because half an hour per day really adds up. The drive is just not long or congested enough to convince people to ditch their cars at the park and ride.