>>1362935>oh god, WALKING for five minutes, the horror.2,5 kilometers of walking is not exactly 5 minutes. More like half an hour, which kills all benefits of not having traffic.
Cool story:
When I was a kid, I went to high-school in city center (because finding in outskirts of city decent school is difficult). I used to wake up at 6:30 AM, and usually left home at 7:00AM , so I could get there at 8:45 AM. 1:45 hour commute. In full subway (1 hour). It took me like 10 minutes to get from home to subway station, and like 20-35 minutes to get from subway station to school. It was pissing me off, obviously. If I wanted to have breakfast in McDonald (which was tempting), I should have left house even earlier.
Then I saw classmate with kick scooter. First, I kinda Insulted him "lol, what dis? are you 5 year old". Then, I decided to get one myself, because after test-drive I quickly realized I can get to maccas without getting up earlier... So I got one, despite parents' insults. Shit was pretty legit, since 30-45 minutes of walking got transformed into 10-15 minutes, which allowed me not only get on much roomier train in subway (before all office niggers), but also get 20-30 minutes for breakfast in maccas.
Then I realized that electric scooters do exist. This one was pretty difficult to obtain, since parents weren't ready to spend $1000 on some toy (that was 2012, when scooters weren't a thing yet). After like 3 month of whining I got my first e-scooter. Shit was extremely legit. It allowed me to get around even faster, 5 minutes instead of 30-45 minutes of walking thanks to 27 km/h top speed. Also it allowed me to use suburban (well, not exactly suburban, it was connecting satellite towns to Moscow) train, which is 5 km away from home, and it was even more legit, since it was so empty, and more importantly, on-ground trains are less stressful, or idk, annoying. Instead of watching on disgusting commuters, I watched sunrise.
So yeah, fuck public transport.
