Queens commutes suck
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Brick Underground:
Residents of four different regions of NYC face commutes that rank among the nation’s top 10 longest ones, according to a study conducted by statistician Chase Sawyer and originally reported on by CityLab. Unsurprisingly, outer borough residents have the toughest slogs in the city: Queens residents have an average commute time of 42.6 minutes, Brooklynites have a 41.7-minute commute on average, Bronx residents 43 minutes and Staten Island residents 42.6 minutes on average. By comparison, Manhattanites' average commute time is about 31 minutes, according to the map. Interestingly, both Westchester County and Nassau County residents had shorter commutes than outer-borough residents — 32.9 and 34.9 minutes respectively, though we'd imagine the aforementioned "summer of hell," and recent LIRR woes may skew these numbers a bit the next time around.
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I live in Bayside and taking the buses and subways from here sucks! The Lirr is too expensive so I took the subway to work every single day. I worked on the upper east side and it took 90mins to get to work and another 90mins to 2 hours to get home in the afternoon. And that was on a good day! In the winter, sometimes it took 3 hours to get home in the afternoon. I would take the express bus there but even that is too expensive and only runs 3 times in the morning and 3 times in the afternoon. The other buses that I could have taken would land me in bay terrace but then I would have to take another bus home. I have known people who live in Pennsylvania and Connecticut who got home faster than me! What a city! Such a mess!
That moron James Oddo still thinks staten island has it the worst. Him and his constituents are too ignorant to think that queens commutes suck.
You make choices and you must then deal with those choices that you made. You choose to live in Wayside, you choose to work on the Upper East Side and you choose a job that does not pay you enough to afford the LIRR
How about New Jersey commuters?
Life in jail is still worse, if it's any consolation. I've come to believe that there are only very few reasons for living in and putting up with NYC: One makes a hell of a lot of money, so one lives in the isolated, privileged "bubble." One has family here and doesn't want to move away from them (though most people want to run away from their relatives). One is in a specific professional field, such as the arts, that can only be fulfilled here, so one is happy living in a coat closet, or a 20 floor walk up, or has to commute for hours on end. Other than that, life is a hell of a lot better, easier, cheaper most elsewhere.
You make choices and you must then deal with those choices that you made
You should make a choice also and jump off a tall building, pitty for the air that you uselessly breath in.
To the person talking about life choices, I don't think you have a right to tell someone else that they should just live with the choices in this particular situation. The city is wrong to run this antiquated manner of transportation. And they have been wrong about this for many many years, all while raising the fares but not providing the improvements. Perhaps if they were less worried about putting Wi-Fi in every damn station, and pay attention to the track work that is long overdue in needing repairs and the potholes all in the streets that are long overdue for repairs maybe people wouldn't be so upset. They wouldn't be wondering where the hell their tax dollars go when it still takes them three damn hours to get home from work( only to have to turn around and do it again the next day) while people commuting multistate are getting home faster than people that live right here in the Five Burroughs. That's ridiculous. Everybody has a right to want to be able to get to and from work in a reasonable timeframe. For instance, I choose to work in my own neighborhood so I don't have to go through all that hassle between Burroughs but not everybody has that luxury of getting employment in their own neighborhood . It's real easy to tell someone else to just suck it up when you may not be having the same trouble that they do. I don't even take public transportation anymore, has nothing at all to do with me and yet I feel sorry for all the people going through this crap that do have to take the public transportation( and I feel this way just out of basic human empathy). And as far as a job not paying enough to afford the LIRR, none of the damn jobs out here pay us what we are truly worth so it's easier said than done on top of having to deal with the city that does not give a shit about commuters. Perhaps you don't even have a job and you choose to sit home and come on Queens crap to judge other people just trying to get around...
@Anonymous
"You make choices and you must then deal with those choices that you made"
The commute times from Queens to Manhattan was not as bad as it is now just a few years ago. If you take notice our population has exploded and travel times are going to get terrible. Our infrastructure is bursting at the seams wake up !
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders
November 22, 2016 ·
Our infrastructure is collapsing, and the American people know it. Every day, they drive on roads with unforgiving potholes and over bridges that are in disrepair. They wait in traffic jams and ride in overcrowded subways. They see airports bursting at the seams. They see the need for a modern rail system. They worry that a local levee or dam could fail in a storm.
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump correctly talked about rebuilding our country’s infrastructure. But the plan he offered is a scam that gives massive tax breaks to large companies and billionaires on Wall Street who are already doing phenomenally well. Trump would allow corporations that have stashed their profits overseas to pay just a fraction of what the companies owe in federal taxes. And then he would allow the companies to “invest” in infrastructure projects in exchange for even more tax breaks. Trump’s plan is corporate welfare coming and going.
In 2015, I introduced the Rebuild America Act to invest $1 trillion over five years to modernize the physical infrastructure that our economy depends on. In January, I will reintroduce that legislation to directly invest in our roads, bridges, water systems, rail, airports, levees and dams. Importantly, at a time when we need to reverse the 40-year decline of the American middle class, this legislation would create and maintain at least 13 million good-paying jobs, while making our country more productive, efficient and safe.
Unlike Trump’s plan, which creates new tax loopholes and is a corporate giveaway, my Rebuild America Act would be paid for by eliminating tax loopholes that allow hugely profitable multinational corporations to stash their profits in offshore tax havens around the world.
Other than that, life is a hell of a lot better, easier, cheaper most elsewhere.
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oh this again. what is your preference - Trump Country, Hillbilly Heroin, the piney North Woods full of gun toten' good ol boys, or 120 degree desert.
The fact of the matter is anyone that can who is young and with a tincture of ambition moves to NY for a reason.
Calf ropin' and stock car racin' are acquired tastes.
Anonymous said...
You make choices and you must then deal with those choices that you made. You choose to live in Wayside, you choose to work on the Upper East Side and you choose a job that does not pay you enough to afford the LIRR
Not a fair statement to say. First of all, I worked in a hospital ans I only took the job because not many other places in Queens pays that well anyway. Plus I did not "CHOOSE" to live in bayside, I ended up living here because my parents who are elderly need my help so I care for them so I ended up moving back into my childhood home. PLUS the closer you live to the city, the more rent you would have to pay, however, the further away from the city you get, the pay isn't so good. Why don't you try looking for a job in queens here that pays you a decent salary? ALL IN ALL, I did end up quitting that job and now I just work from home for another hospital! So stop with your ignorant comments UNLESS you know someone else's situation you fool!
To the last anonymous, living at home with a sick parent is my situation as well. This idiot has no idea and like I said, they're probably jobless and have nothing better to do then the troll the Internet and queens crap
We need more subway trains and high speed trains.
Come on Elon Musk.....let's dig some holes!
the long commute is exhausting but what is worse is the violence, the drunks, the mentally ill and the threatening beggars. I can no longer take the rush hour train from where I live due to the violence.
To Mr. Bayside,
1) Your parents should be in Florida where it's cheaper, so tell them to sell their overpriced home and take the equity;
2) I'm glad you got a new job because...
3) ...now you can afford the LIRR which is the MOST expeditious way to get to that Greek hellhole called Bayside from the city.
That is all.
My wife's commute to Hoboken is quicker and most times more comfortable from our new neighborhood in Nassau County than Maspeth. From maspeth it took a bus to Subway to Path train to go 11.4 miles in 1 hr 20 mins. From my new house 26 miles away it takes LIRR to Path in 1 hr 10 minutes. The subways in NYC weren't always the problem. It's the buses.
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