Originally posted by sigma:

It would take a lot of systems cooperating, but I wouldn't say it's insane. People do it all over the nation everyday. Seattle has what I consider to be one the best in the nation, almost all of New England has a superb network of transportation alternatives that make transprotation a breeze. People "commute" into NYC from, literally, all over the neighboring states. You can be from any street in Massachusetts down to any street in DC in just a couple hours.





Seattle has one of the best? I beg to differ! Tacoma has a far better public trasnportation ssytem than Seattle does. With the purposed light rail in Seattle and the monorail extension, King County Metro and Sound Transit STILL leave way too much of the Seattle metropolitan area with little to no feasible commuting options other than getting in your own car to drive yourself to work.

For me to get from Auburn to Fife (a 20 minute drive in traffic) it took me 3 hours when I was paying off my old Honda off after it crapped out two years ago. Getting to the Supermall in Auburn (10 minute drive) took and hour and a half.

Back when I lived in the suburb Renton, it would have taken me almost 4 hours to get from Renton to my old office in Bothell, a 25 minute drive without traffic, 45 minute drive with. That was IF i was commuting during normal hours, but I worked nights at the time.

Any public transportation option that does not exceed an normal commute by double the solo time is not feasible in my book. If there was a public transportation option that took 45 minutes from the time I walked out of my new place in Covington to the time I sat down at my desk in Snoqualmie, I would take it.

Friends of mine that live on Seattle's Capital Hill have even more to gripe about than I do.

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