Your subway takes more than twice the time to get you to the city center than driving?
I have to say, I've never been to a city like that. I mean, unless your meetings are at 4am or something. Don't you have traffic? Is your subway pulled by horses?
I have to say, I've never been to a city like that. I mean, unless your meetings are at 4am or something. Don't you have traffic? Is your subway pulled by horses?
10 min - Finding a parking spot at Alewife
15 minutes - getting the ticket if you don't have one (moot if you have a pass or stored value / Charlie Card)
10 minutes - walking to the actual train platform and waiting for the next train to leave
30 minutes - to downtown crossing because it has to stop every stop along the way
10 minutes - to walk from the station to your meeting
And that is assuming you don't need to transfer to another line.
Granted the first and last one are time you'd spend either way (unless your lucky enough to have the garage attached to the building you need to be in)
Drive time for said trip... 20 minutes
As long as I could avoid peak time, I found it similar in Boston: 40 mins to drive in, 60-70 mins on the train.
And parking and taking the T wasn't even always an option as the garage on my route (Alewife) can fill up.