>>1964101That sentence is about distance between the transit stop and your home.
or transit stop -> workplace
or transit stop -> girlfriend's house
etc.
Real-life example. There's a train station in CityA, 10 miles from my house. There's a railroad linking to CityB. In reality, trains only come a couple of times per day but let's pretend it's a 125mph HSR that can cover the ~60 miles between cities in about 30 minutes and comes every hour or so. My old apartment is about 10 miles from the train station in CityB, let's try to get there.
Home to CityA Station - 17 minutes (driving)
CityA to CityB - 30 minutes (HSR accelerating to 125mph instantly and decelerating to 0 instantly also)
CityB Station to Apt - 19 minutes (driving)
Total transit time: 66 minutes plus waiting at transfer points.
Driving directly from my home to old apartment: 53 minutes on my own schedule.
There's a bus stop 1.5 miles from my house. Let's imagine I wake up at the asscrack of dawn to try and pull this one off
Walk to bus stop - 25 minutes
Bus1 to CityA Bus Station - 43 minutes
Bus2 to CityA train station - 14 minutes
CityA to CityB - 30 minutes
Walk to Bus3 stop - 11 minutes
Bus3 to village - 41 minutes
Walk from village Apt - 4 minutes
Total time: 2 hours, 48 minutes. More than 3x the time it takes to drive, NOT COUNTING wait times or delays or any of the other bullshit you deal with taking public transit.
The biggest time suck by far is all the bus stops (many of which are empty most of the time anyway), followed by the walking. But if you decrease the bus stops, you increase walking times. The bus stops are there because what little demand exists, demands stops as convenient as possible.
