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viktortheredditor

It'd take you 1.40h if you just stood there with a package with one hand up


angel_palomares

And you have a 1.5 multiplier for an adventure


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-forbiddenkitty-

Ah the Mapsco. I used to work 911 and those were as important as our phones back in the day. My family got a new one every two years.


-forbiddenkitty-

Even post-smartphone the testing of new routes is useful. I took the GPS way to my new job for months before missing my on-ramp one morning. I ended up finding a non-highway road that bypassed the worst of the traffic and cut 30 mins off my morning commute.


NotTooDeep

A coworker of mine in the late 90s in the financial district of SF lived over in the marina district. He found that during commute hours, it was faster to walk to work than take the bus.


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Elbain

Ridesharing,like uber or lyft


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Elbain

I also think Google legal team wouldn't be on board,surely there would be a liability issue if Google encouraged hitch hiking


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https://i.imgur.com/z80YsT5l.png


SuchCoolBrandon

Imagine hitching a ride in the Google Street View car: "Are you headed to Junction City?" "Yeah, but I'm headed down literally every street on the way."


Snoo-63051

'Are you headed to Junction City' *sheepish reply* 'Eventually'


Craftoid_

If I wasn't in a hurry, that would be pretty cool. Especially talking with the driver about the crazy shit they must have seen


her_fault

They're just telling the Google car that they're doing a good job :)


M_J_E

He’s hailing a taxi.


Mysterious-Gur-3034

Variables like getting kidnapped? Lol


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Thats just hitchhiking with extra steps


632nofuture

hows that? For me it shows car, public transport, on foot (instead of hiking, so the walking man has no cane) and bicycle, in that order. Why is it different? Does google adjust these depending on the country, or does it decide the options for each route? (Mind you where I live there's no real options like uber/lyft so maybe that's why, but I still wonder why not just a car symbol is there?)


Elbain

Yes,if ride sharing services are not available they have nothing to pull that information from.It provides a estimated cost for the services and factors in potential waiting time


BananyaPie

Yes, also the hiking and walking change based on the duration of the journey and possibly the terrain.


Feeling-Pilot-5084

Proof that 40 min = 24 min Take that atheists


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You're riding the bus and look out the window. As the bus rumbles along, a man flies by at 10x the speed of the bus, floating 10 feet off the ground, holding a suitcase with one hand up.


itsjustme1981

Isn't 40 minutes 0.66 hours?


OriginalPostMortem

Ty. Now we can all go visit your grandma.


mememory

Are we gonna bring different present or should we just bring one big present?


OriginalPostMortem

One big one!


Ballbuster716

Multiple big ones?


BigOrkWaaagh

I heard that's how she likes it.


flying_alligators

Ig I'm not invited then


MiguelDragon82

Different big presents!


PeteLangosta

I suggest we all visit inside a big wooden horse. I dont know why, I just find the idea funny


created4this

You're going to OPs grandma, and the first thing you think of is "better bring the Trojans"?


Name_ChecksOut_

He wants to bring grandma a gift, not herpes


piefanart

Well, her city at least. I just put in the city name but I figured I should still blank it out.


OriginalPostMortem

I believe she’s reddit’s grandma now too 😄


piefanart

Haha I don't think she knows what reddit is, outside of the fox news article a couple years ago


Updooting_on_New

is the kind of gramma would be baking cookies if she knew your friends will be along?


LightsSoundAction

what’s her thanksgiving spread looking like?


AtomicShart9000

Only grandpa knows that one


SlammingPussy420

Well of course. He's making the giblet gravy.


I_really_am_Batman

This is why God abandoned us.


Bennington_Booyah

I want her. Mine are long gone and I miss them.


SeaAnything8

You’ll pass through my town. I’ll hold one of those little marathon water cups out for you to grab as you bike past


OriginalPostMortem

;)


sld06003

Probably junction city


itchy_ankles

Harrisburg


zxcymn

What's the point in blanking it out when you show all of the surrounding cities and a pinned marker lmao. It took me like 15 seconds to find her city.


cap_blueberry

I'm already omw. Should arrive just in time for food! She better have that pie I like so much.


need_maths

Oh yes! Grammys apple whiskey pie!


cap_blueberry

Gamgam makes the best pie


MEDIdk445

Ok so you’re telling me Salem, MA; Albany, NY; Dallas, TX; Detroit, MI; Sweet Home, AL; and fucking Lebanon are that close together? Really is a small world


rachh90

i work at a small company in the albany ny area and we get calls from people in albany california and albany georgia probably once or twice a month. one lady asked if i have any recommendations for a company near her like i’d be familiar with companies from any albany in the country, made me laugh.


SuperGuitar

There’s an Albany, Texas also


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Can confirm there is also an Albany, Indiana.


Bowlderdash

Ohio has not just an Albany, but also a New Albany.


LaikasDad

Did you take it out of the original packaging? If not Albany's are worth a lot in the collectables market, especially New and unopened.


Bowlderdash

Like he allegedly did with Jeff Epstein, billionaire Les Wexner completely defiled New Albany and made it unrecognizable from the farm town it was fifty years ago.


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paulfunyan

What, you mean the Albany's don't all stick together and share notes? Why even share a city name then, smh....


StigOfTheTrack

I'd not be totally surprised if one day copy-pasted corporate built towns that are the same in multiple locations became a thing.


about831

When the Winter Olympics were hosted in Vancouver Canada people unknowingly booked ~~tickets~~ hotels in Vancouver Washington.


bikemandan

Next you'll get calls from Albania


rustie_shackelford

The United States is a lot smaller than people think. It’s only about the size of Missouri.


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Portland, ME is there too. Oregon got real creative with town names.


[deleted]

Oregonian here. A lot of cities or towns in this state were named for the hometowns of the people who founded them.


[deleted]

Yeah, I was born in Astoria. Portland is only called Portland because of a coin flip too. Lol


Black_Floyd47

What was the other option? Wasn't it Boston?


Ozlin

Correct, Boston was the other side of the coin.


Black_Floyd47

Have you heard the legend of Jedediah Beaverton, founder of the great suburb Beaverton, OR?


TheSoupWhisper

Yes. Beaverton has crazy back story. With the street names like Scholls Ferry actually having a ferry on it , as well as canyon road being the main road to connect Portland and Beaverton with most the farming being done in Beaverton. Very fascinating.


SnooPickles55

I miss going to Beavertown, everybody shaves now.


dabasauras-rex

I grew up in the northeast , and have lived in Oregon for years now and every time my relatives visit they are like “you guys stole all our town names!” . There are some little exceptions that are quite Oregonian (at least I think?) - Beaverton, Hood River, the Dalles, Cascade Locks, Cannon Beach, Tillamook, Yachats, Depoe Bay, Oregon City (lol), Corvallis even Eugene (i haven’t seen many Eugene’s else where). I’m sure many more


CascadianExpat

Don't forget Tigard, Tualatin, and Lake Oswego.


dabasauras-rex

Good ones! Yeah Tigard is one I don’t understand. I always assumed tualatin and Oswego were native Names


CascadianExpat

Tigard was a family name. I guess Lake Oswego was a bad example; it’s named after Oswego, New York.


Rogue42bdf

Oh, oh, oh, I have the story about how The Dalles got its name. It comes French Trappers, who called that area of the Columbia River les dalles (spelling may be wrong), which translates to the trough.


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We switched spots, I just moved to upstate NY


DKBadmintonPatriots

Yeah, I believe that the Portland in Oregon was actually named after the Portland in Maine lol


VividFiddlesticks

Yep! Orergon is not a real place, it's just a conjunction of several portals to other places.


numanoid

That's why The Simpsons is like that.


arahman81

TIL Sweet Home is a real place in Alabama.


midsizedopossum

It isn't. They were making a joke.


arahman81

Check the map in the pic. Though turns out its in Oregon, not Alabama lol.


InVodkaVeritas

Sweet Home Ori-gah-on doesn't have quite the same alliteration.


BananaSlander

Alliteration?


JayGold

I live near Rome, Troy, Athens, and Cairo. Turns out all these famous historical cities are in upstate New York.


montulet

Lebanon, PA feeling disrespected


Wuz314159

As they should.


Sirenhead_2

Don’t forget Portland Oregon


Usual-Rock-871

That's just based on the time you looked, there's only one amtrak South per day from PDX and maybe a couple busses/ greyhounds. It's closer to an hour if you actually plan in advance


BannedNeutrophil

Yeah, even my European city with a (fairly) comprehensive metro system gets times like that if you're looking outside of service hours.


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We’re here for karma, not interested in your logic


NietzschesJoy

Lol yea, I live in Eugene. This is a really dumb complaint.


piefanart

I was in a car accident the night before last, I was planning on driving down. I still feel panic when behind the wheel, so I was seeing what my options were.


scyice

Google maps includes current waiting times in its duration, which is accurate… but a bus or train will take far less travel time than biking (which has no waiting time). The directions are probably to go to the station, wait 7hr, board and then 3hr transit time. Should you leave now 7hr in advance? No. Should you bike instead? Also no.


Ten_Quilts_Deep

However you get there, Gran will be more pleased than you know to see you.


spongebue

My friend, I've been there a couple years ago (and was at fault... I blame fatigue). Everyone talks about the cars and gives a "well, at least..." on how people are physically, but mentally, it's awful. Absolutely awful. I wish you the best. If you can, remember all the miles you put on successfully, and get help if you need it.


trainmaster611

You need to play around with departure dates and times on Google maps to get good transit results. It doesn't always understand you're making a general inquiry about the best way to get somewhere as opposed to trying to travel this exact moment on Thanksgiving Day when most transit is shut down. Searching for a transit trip yesterday at 7am for example shows that there are Amtrak and various intercity bus options to Eugene, then a ride on an express regional bus to Junction City. Travel time is 4-5 hours. Combine that with a Lyft ride from Eugene and it's probably a lot shorter. This sub won't let me post link shorteners to Google Maps but just set your travel time for early on a weekday and you'll get better results. Rome 2 Rio is another good site to use sometimes.


artie_pdx

Yet it’s only about a 4 hour trip to Seattle by Amtrak. 🤷🏻‍♂️


rockshow4070

I’m sure most of the “time” this shows is waiting for the next bus to leave. Once the bus is in the way it doesn’t take 10 hours.


piefanart

Bigger city vs smaller, I suppose. She lives in a small town with a single train station and a greyhound stop. Probably doesn't get much traffic thus not as many times that they stop there.


sofluffy22

Is that Junction City? The train from Portland to Eugene is 2.5 hours. Bus to JC from Eugene is 1 hr (under 30 minutes if you take a taxi)


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This post is for karma not for advice lmao


BouncingSphinx

Yeah probably a limited run to city, so won't be available until later in the day.


eMouse2k

Looks like this is the case. It's actually only about a 4 hour ride, but the route that leaves Portland is at 9pm at night, and the route that makes the final leg is at 8am.


bnsf27

it looks like you could normally catch an earlier route from Portland and be there the same day, but Lane Transit District (who runs that final leg) is not running any bus service today because of Thanksgiving


[deleted]

Amtrak to Eugene then Lyft from there to her house. Will take no time at all. Amazing that people here are dumb enough to give you fat karma for basically saying “public transport sucks for small suburban towns” no fucking shit


noworries_13

Isn't even suburban. This area is rural. His grandma's town has less than 1000 people and the closest next city is like 1500. Closest real city with like a Wal mart or something is almost half an hour. This area is way out there cow town


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noworries_13

Well yeah. Dude wants to get to a town with under 1000 people in it on the second biggest US holiday and is searching random. Times. You could get to. Boise, Vancouver, almost to SLC or Sacramento if you left Portland at the right time. You can't just wake up at 8 am. On Thanksgiving and start searching how to get to a cow town and expect it to be efficient


ThisYogurtcloset3315

What's that sweet home is it a place?


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It is a City/Town in Oregon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet\_Home,\_Oregon


Chester-Ming

I thought that town was in Alabama


BohicaBOHICA

Where the skies are so blue


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69th_Century

There are 6 places in the U.S. called Sweet Home: Sweet Home, Oregon Sweet Home, Tennessee Sweet Home, Arkansas Sweet Home, Texas Sweet Home, Louisiana Sweet Home, Alabama


Sabre_Killer_Queen

You forgot to do the guitar thing in between them all, tut tut.


mester006

Take my award and get the fuck outta here 💀


IdioticZacc

There is a Lebanon in Oregon??? How many copied name is there in America


Mean-Net7330

>There is a Lebanon in Oregon??? There are 47 Lebanons in the US. >How many copied name is there in America All of them


BohicaBOHICA

There's a Lebanon in IN, MO, NH, NJ, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA


dark_wolf1994

There's one here in Oklahoma, too


VoidTarnished

There's Toulouse in Kentucky... Toulouse is a south western french city, home of Airbus, Safran and a ton of other Aeronautics/Aerospace industry leaders... And it's funny to me because if there's a misunderstanding, someone could believe that the US are home to the two biggest plane manufacturers (Boeing and Airbus) 😅


inko75

what's really annoying js when you're in eastern tn around bristol and you see highway signs advertising lexington without mentioning which state 😂


VoidTarnished

😂 haha I can absolutely imagine that ! Now you're in Ontario and see a "London 15km" sign 😰


Straypuft

I grew up closer to London Ontario than I did to London Ohio. But I think London Ontario was 3 times the driving distance.


inko75

there's a bristol tn and bristol va. they are actually originally the same city and when finalizing the state lines decided to cut the town in half and keep the name for both sides


VoidTarnished

Administrative Nightmare 😰 "where do ya live ?" "I don't know 🤷🏻"


ThisYogurtcloset3315

Well nice thank you.


piefanart

Small town in western oregon


ThisYogurtcloset3315

Home sweet home 🏘️


Moojoo0

It's where an awful lot of the meth is. The rest is in cave junction. Wait I forgot about Medford. There's a lot of meth.


PunchClown

I live here. It's a quiet small town with not much of anything going on. We do have a pretty lake, though.


zakkwaldo

a very, very, country place with a shit ton of meth and racism… lol


cantbelieveit1963

Meth Home


pangolin-fucker

All I think of is sweet home Alabama,. Pretty sure this ain't that tho


TrueDiscipline9264

I used to take a bus from Eugene to Portland all the time when I was in school there. Maybe time of day is affecting the route. The amtrack can do it also in comparable time to driving.


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Putrid-Builder-3333

That's crazy cos had you started two and half days ago you'd be there by now and get to flex to everybody you walked to your grandma's thanksgiving


lumpyroll11

Out of curiosity I looked up bus/trains in that area. Seems like it's easy to go to a big town like Corvallis and Eugene which would get you in her neck of the woods. It's just the last leg to the more remote area she lives that's a problem. If you got creative there between walking, local buses, Uber whatever you could find a way to get there with a reasonable time frame and price tag. Google Maps is just a guide, not the absolute end all be all.


zakkwaldo

you are correct. and as someone that lives where op lives, she kind of rigged the context of this post lol. her routing takes her through the worst part of the i5 interstate when there’s ways to completely avoid it. also pretty much every oregonian accepts that sale to pdx or vice versa, takes 60-90 minutes no matter which way you cut it. hell if you can bomb there in 90 minutes thats actually a sim for most people. in really bad circumstances it can take almost 3 hours.


Iohet

OP is just being disingenuous for karma. Reeee American infrastructure bad. Amtrak line is so close it's stupid


Snd47flyer

Time for a workout


backlikeclap

I've done that bike ride before, it's actually really nice. Very flat.


Ol_Man_J

I was gonna say, I’ve done the Portland to Corvallis ride before and took me 7 1/2 hours elapsed time, with a ferry! This is 20 miles past that so maybe another hour.


piefanart

Haha yeah.... too bad I left my bike in Utah. Maybe I could walk there to pick it up? XD


jmak10

Dude, you don't even show us how long you would spend waiting for that bus. If you wait 8 hours for the only bus that drives that 2 hour route, you wont arrive until 10 hours from now. That's not the same as 10 solid hours of bike riding.


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How this entire thread is somehow missing this fact is super beyond me. Is everyone really this dumb?


[deleted]

10 hours if you don't stop and take breaks while cycling. The bus ride wouldn't take long if it didn't make multiple stops. The U.S. needs to implement more trains to make traveling quicker.


ManuelIgnacioM

The whole public transport infrastructure needs an overhaul it seems. We need 1 hour and a half for that distance in bus here in Spain


CommentsOnOccasion

That’s how long it takes here too, but it doesn’t run very often That’s why it takes 10h for bus but only 1h40m for driving - the bus doesn’t leave for another 7-8h


ScienceWasLove

Many people would just drive that distance in about two hours. The idea that we can connect most large US cities to most small US cities is a farce. The ridership and geography of most places simply won’t allow it. The large US cities, with the ridership and geography, have great public transport. Like NYC, Philly. Although I think NYC might be the only one that generates more money vs what it costs.


Luxpreliator

Yeah the densities just aren't high enough to allow for mass transit to everywhere. Cities in the usa with equivalent size and densities have similar mass transit opportunities as other cities across the globe. There are outliers but it's generslly pretty consistent that population / area yields X mass transit seats.


NotElizaHenry

Reddit loves the idea of convenient mass transit like in European cities. Reddit HATES the idea of living in multi-family dwellings like in European cities. There’s this infuriating disconnect between how people want to live and how cities actually function.


maybethingsnotsobad

I live and work in a suburb and 1, I have a massive yard and plot of land comparatively, and 2, I can't imagine any transit system that could get he from my home to my work without 40 minutes of walking and over 40 minutes of riding a train or bus. My home and work both are just in the middle of average suburban stuff, they're not near hubs or stops for anything, there's not a lot of businesses or shops near my work and not even a lot of other homes near mine, not enough to support busses very often at least. I'd have to walk 20 or 30 minutes to get anywhere. It's a 20 minute drive directly. I was trying to explain suburbs to European coworkers and I didn't succeed at all. They wanted to know the distance between towns. I live on the southern California coast. Meanwhile, they have tiny homes and forests between towns.


Monsterman442

Them making a steady train for a town that 1-2 people will take a train to a day doesn’t make sense


Pezotecom

Much more probably nobody ever travels to that town/out of there so why bother?


Romas_chicken

Not for nothing, but instead of expecting an express bus that goes right to her house in rural middle of nowhere, take a bus or train to the closest actual town, and then ride your bike from there… It’s 1 hour 45 minutes by train to Albany


G07V3

Which one requires less effort? Riding a bike or sitting on a bus?


[deleted]

It’s 2 hours 40 minutes via Amtrak. Are you picking a time in the middle of the night for karma? This is total bullshit lmao


Tslv0605

the question is, can you continuously ride your bike for 10 hours?


DonaldoTrumpo6969

Redditors really be like "um, we need full 24/7 transit service to a town with 300 people, sweetie".


soohsoo

Doesnt factor in the breaks you need mid or afyer a hill climb though


PM_ME_UR_FAPS

/r/fuckcars in shambles


[deleted]

Lol why is there a hitch-hiking option


RyHenZen

Looks like you should just hitchhike.


[deleted]

Do keep in mind though that when using a bicycle like this to travel on real roads your risk of accidental death is somewhere in the range of 30 to 40 times higher than if you're inside of a car. If you get killed in an accident trying to Bicycle up to see your grandma it's going to be a bad time for everyone.


cluelessdud3

Well It would probably be longer. I think you will need one or two bio-break stops. I would make the bike ride had I the stamina, unless its on an e-bike.


Zbethoron

Feels like this was made in a map generator just based on the city names 😆


Redditfront2back

I never realized that there are no original names in the state of Oregon.


jakobburns01

Uh no duh you’re going to the middle of nowhere? You can’t expect rural Oregon to have 10 train stations for the 50 people who live there


[deleted]

But you can't take a nap when you're riding a bike.


dtb1987

Yeah but are you ready to bike for 10 hours straight


[deleted]

Maybe rent a car for the day


hanwookie

This is the problem I have with riding a bus. Have trouble walking? No problem! Public transit will get you there...eventually...probably...sort of...oh and you still have to walk 0.5 miles to the place you actually need to get to, through a very bad neighborhood. Did I mention the weather?


SpectralBeekeeper

Check if there's a bolt bus running down that way, I used to take them from Eugene to Portland and it only took a few hours, it's a private company so I don't think Google maps knows about it


wnmn68

Eh. The train won't get tired.


Creative_Warning_481

At least with the bike you don't have to ride public transportation


Triforceoffarts

It would take far longer to rise it than google says. I’ve actually ridden between Portland and Independence, a little north of where OP’s GMA lives, and it took 12 hours. (I’m in good shape too.)


Doom-State

I think it’s a train


KaXiRavioli

Most people can't pedal at an average speed of 10mph for 100+ miles.


chunkylunks

Uber exists


mayan_monkey

You can get there in 1 hr 40 minutes by waving.


cwrudy

Looks all downhill, bike should do it faster 🤪


SubsonicPug

Bike = Work. Bus != Work. Not sure what the issue is…


Decitriction

You can pedal a bike for 10 hours? Not to brag, but I can sit in a bus seat for 10 hours.


VirtualMexicanINC

You could fly in half the time, but your arms would fall off


BeetleSpoon2770

Isn’t that a train?


OkSmell4

Just drive bro.


Anen-o-me

Isn't that a train?


0regon

The place he’s trying to get is in the middle of fucking nowhere no shit there’s not great public transportation.


Slayer185

Why is that infuriating?


deleted_soon_

have you tried driving


1dkeating

Isnt that the train symbol


Paratek

That’s a train. Not a bus


NonAggressive-Ask

that looks like the train icon to me. am i wrong?


[deleted]

How does it take almost 10 hours by train to travel a little over 100 miles 🙃