I feel like this kind of epitomizes the state of public transit in the US, especially the South.

The Task: try to get from point A, which is a few hundred yards from the rail line, to point B, which is about 2 miles from a train station.

The trip is about 26 minutes by car, mostly via interstate. (There is, of course, an interstate highway running almost directly between the two points.)

Just to get from point A to the nearest train station is 18 minutes by car -- almost as long as just driving to point B.

To use walking and public transit to get from point A to the aforementioned nearest train station, according to Google Maps, takes -- get this -- almost two hours.

(Just to be clear: The train you'd want runs over those very same lines that are a few hundred yards from point A, but there's no station nearby.)

The background, fwiw, is that I'm trying to minimize the amount of car-driving involved in getting a non-driving adult from A to B -- but "minimizing car-driving" isn't a thing we do here, I guess.

[refrains from any political commentary because... too soon]

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