Mass Transit Sadness
I'd love to take mass transit to my new job that I start next week, I'm 2 blocks from a train station and it's 1 mile from a major junction station. So I'm off to the NJ Transit page to do some math.
Westfield -> Newark -> Secaucus Junction = $198.00/month
Not bad, but then we calculate out what it costs to drive:
Gas + Tolls + Oil Changes = 143.87/month (assuming $4 gas and 20 working days; can't get rid of the car so no worthwhile insurance/payment savings)
Assuming the tolls don't increase ridiculously, it would have to cost me $82/tank of gas ($6.84/gal or drop to ~25 mpg) to be cost-effective to use mass transit.
It just might make sense soon, but not yet. Anyone else run into this?
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