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Originally Posted by cheswick
Curious now that the rapid transit has been up and running for a while how has it affected anyone who works downtown travel times to work?
A friend of mine takes it home and says it takes him pretty much the exact same amount of time as it took him previously. Before he would catch the bus at graham and vaughn I think and it would be more of a direct route down osborne to pembina. Now he says he has to travel all the way down graham stopping at every stop then down main at every stop so the extra time it takes to get out of the downtown pretty much cancels out the savings of the rapid portion. I assume someone working closer to Portage and Main would see more benefit?
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I work downtown and live near the U of M. I can definitely say I've left my car at home since rapid transit came. My commute is about 25 - 30 mins by car and about 15 - 20 mins by rapid transit (both during rush hour.) So I'm saving at least 10 minus usually in commute time and $150ish per month in parking. If I didn't work shift work, I would change my insurance over to leisure so I would save even more.
I benefit from it since I live right on the main route of rapid transit, so I'm either in a diamond lane or transit way pretty much the whole way to my place. when I'm on night shifts, there's no real difference in time for driving or transit.