Surfing on the bus

Cincin­nati is try­ing some­thing new to entice peo­ple to ride the bus to work. They are equip­ping 2 buses with wire­less Inter­net capa­bil­ity, allow­ing busi­ness com­muters to work, write blog posts, read the news, or check e-mail on the way to work. I am very inter­ested in this idea, as it would add a lot of pro­duc­tive time to the day. My typ­i­cal com­mute is about 30 min­utes each way. Thus, I could add an hour a day of pro­duc­tive time back to my life. Over the course of a month, that would yield almost an entire week worth of time that could be spent get­ting things accom­plished. These things might be work related, per­sonal, or edu­ca­tional, but would be accom­plished on time that was pre­vi­ously spent trapped behind the wheel. This new rea­son for rid­ing the bus would all be on top of the reg­u­lar ben­e­fits of pub­lic tran­sit– clean air, less traf­fic, save on gas. Those fac­tors are nice, but none of them are suf­fi­cient enough to make me change from dri­ving. Pro­duc­tive time is the most valu­able com­mod­ity in my life.  Wire­less Inter­net on a bus would pro­vide me with much more of that com­mod­ity, and just might be the thing that could change how I com­mute to work. Hope­fully Cincin­nati will be suc­cess­ful with this endeavor, and Day­ton will then copy the idea. Time will tell. I applaud the city of Cincin­nati for tak­ing such a fresh approach to pub­lic tran­sit. Voice your opin­ion of wire­less Inter­net and pub­lic tran­sit by leav­ing a mes­sage below.

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