jexner 🏳️🌈
I feel like I have discovered a commuting tip: do not go to your office on the hour, instead aim for 20 past, or a quarter to.
Everybody tries to be there on the hour, and if you do, too, your commute will be crowded.
If I take my bike only 10 minutes later, the streets are notably emptier.
Is that actually a thing?
#Commute #BikeTooter
Jeff Horton :canada:@jexner@tooting.ch I used to do this on transit all the time in Vancouver, just wait one bus, one train and usually great.
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#FBPE@jexner@tooting.ch Not round here. EXCEPT of course between xx:55 and xx:05 in the city centre when many thousands of students are getting from one lecture to the next.
(Is that still a thing? I haven't noticed it in recent years. Possibly just because I avoid cycling through the city centre at those times.)
David S@TimWardCam@c.im @jexner@tooting.ch
Not really in London, although I was half an hour later leaving work today and it was noticeably quieter - perhaps a holiday effect?
But the tip certainly works for my building's showers at rush hour!
jexner 🏳️🌈@TimWardCam@c.im Hm. Maybe it has to do with the size of the place I work in?
Basel is not a big city, and I live south of Basel. Maybe that is a factor.
jexner 🏳️🌈@Pionir@masto.bike @TimWardCam@c.im 🙂
For me it is the opposite. It takes ages until the water is warm, unless I shower when everybody else does, too.