HockeyDad wrote:That sounds like a San Francisco Bay Area commute…..and the bike trail is completely covered with homeless people tent cities.
And this is suburban indiana. Population growth far surpassed infrastructure and traffic is as bad as a city. We don't have too many homeless, but they're there. No camps, most of them have cars or vans parked in busy parking lots.
Theres three routes I can take. One has 5 railroad crossings and 12 traffic lights but on the rare day there's no train, takes 15 minutes to get in. Can well surpass an hour if there is one train but I've caught 2 a few times. There's a switching yard nearby so on one of the crossings the trains will stop for 20-30 minutes.
The other has 25ish traffic lights but bridges over the crossings. Routinely 30 minutes.
The third has two train crossings and 18 traffic lights. Routinely 40 minutes, but well over an hour if a train backs up traffic.