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title: Confessions of ex-car commuters
description: When it takes you an hour or more to commute to work every day, that’ll make you think twice about whether commuting by car is really “independence.”
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# Commuter Chronicles

## [Confessions of ex-car commuters](http://epassblog.dart.org/tired-of-commuting-to-work-confessions)

 \[fa icon="calendar"\] 10/19/16

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## **What they learned when they started riding DART**

![Blog-photo-Rider-Benefits.png](http://epassblog.dart.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Rider_Benefits/Blog-photo-Rider-Benefits.png?width=230&name=Blog-photo-Rider-Benefits.png "Blog-photo-Rider-Benefits.png")This is Texas! We love the open road, we love our vehicles and we love our **independence**. It’s a big state so the thought of taking a several-hour road trip to hear a band in Austin or go fishing in East Texas is no big deal. 

But when it takes you an hour or more to crawl across the Metroplex just trying to commute to work every day, that’ll make you think twice about whether commuting by car is really “independence.”

### Does a car = independence?

You probably tell yourself that commuting to work by car makes it easier to stop for groceries or do errands on the way home. But after a long and stressful commute you don’t really *want* to do errands or get groceries, do you? Admit it–you just want to get home. We know because we’ve been there, too.

*So have these guys.*

 

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